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Facebook Algorithm Shows Gender Bias in Job Ads, Study Finds
Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Researchers found the platform’s algorithms promoted roles to certain users; company pledges to continue work in removing bias from recommendations
Fired by Bot at Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the Machine’
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.
Student proves Twitter algorithm ‘bias’ toward lighter, slimmer, younger faces
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Company pays $3,500 to Bogdan Kulynych who demonstrated flaw in image cropping software
Uber Drivers Say a 'Racist' Algorithm Is Putting Them Out of Work
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
After Backlash, Predictive Policing Adapts to a Changed World
|| Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Software developers and city governments are rethinking how and when to use algorithms that promise to curb crime
Faces Are the Next Target for Fraudsters
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Hackers are pioneering new ways of tricking facial-recognition systems, from cutting the eyes out of photos to making a portrait ‘nod’ with artificial intelligence
U.S. lawmakers aim to curtail face recognition even as the technology IDs Capitol attackers
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month.
Quantum Computing Scientists Call for Ethical Guidelines
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A group of quantum computing experts are raising ethical concerns about the technology’s potential to accelerate human DNA manipulation.