Tech titans curb hiring in a 'challenging macro environment'
From e-commerce colossus Amazon to social networking star Facebook, US tech firms that once grew with abandon have reined in hiring to endure tumultuous times.
May 15, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
U.S. civil rights enforcers warn employers against biased AI
The federal government said Thursday that artificial intelligence technology to screen new job candidates or monitor worker productivity can unfairly discriminate against people with disabilities, sending a warning to employers ...
May 12, 2022
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Computer Sciences
This algorithm has opinions about your face
When two people meet, they instantly size each other up, making snap judgments about everything from the other person's age to their intelligence or trustworthiness based solely on the way they look. Those first impressions, ...
Apr 21, 2022
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Business
Europe bolsters pioneering tech rules with help from Haugen
European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world that have been slower to regulate Facebook ...
Nov 8, 2021
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Security
Data and computer scientists, ecologists, pathologists and legal scholars study AI's biases
Artificial Intelligence touches almost every aspect of our lives, from mobile banking and online shopping to social media and real-time traffic maps. But what happens when artificial intelligence is biased? What if it makes ...
Apr 16, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
How energy modelling influences policymaking and vice versa
Energy models are used to explore different options for the development of energy systems in virtual "laboratories". Scientists have been using energy models to provide policy advice for years. As a new study shows, energy ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
World first for ethical AI and workplace equity
Companies, organizations, and governments around the world face an incredible challenge to rebuild their workforce at scale, and with the confidence that the technology they use to make important decisions is fair, accurate ...
Dec 8, 2020
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Security
Q&A with Lujo Bauer on how the pandemic is affecting individuals' privacy and security
Many Americans have been working remotely for over a month now in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in new paradigms in their own and their employers' cybersecurity and privacy. CyLab's Lujo Bauer, a professor ...
Apr 17, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Report from AI watchdogs rips emotion tech
The opinion that affect recognition should be banned from important decisions sounds like an angry cry...but what does it all mean? Talk is heating up, actually, about artificial intelligence's impact on our daily lives in ...
Machine learning & AI
Periodic review of the artificial intelligence industry reveals challenges
As part of Stanford's ongoing 100-year study on artificial intelligence, known as the AI100, two workshops recently considered the issues of care technologies and predictive modeling to inform the future development of AI ...
Nov 26, 2019
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