New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns
“They target you from the minute you step out of foster care,” Hamblin said. “They have this microscope on you, and for them to build a case based off your prior records of you being in care—it's not...
OIG report: US officials working on Login.gov, used by dozens of sites, rejected facial recognition to verify users due to algorithmic bias, breaking NIST rules
Khari Johnson / Wired : Tweets: @tobywalsh Tweets: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : Is this really true? WIRED claims federal security guidelines require that a person's identity must be confirmable using a...
New study says encouraging consensus among data labelers from diverse backgrounds can lead to better AI for detecting misogyny and harassment on social media
Khari Johnson / Wired : Tweets: @onlinesosorg and @gadgetlab Tweets: OnlineSOS / @onlinesosorg : Researchers in Denmark tried a new approach to training AI to delete misogyny, hiring the seven people...
A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : FBI in Possession of Software Able to Profile Anyone Using Just a Picture Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1225: the facial ...
GitHub report: over 80% of repository contributions come from outside the US, ~44M repositories were created since October 2018, crossed 100M in November 2018
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Amazon says Alexa can now give information about federal and gubernatorial elections and that it is working with AP and Ballotpedia for poll times and results
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Facebook adds a Help Center page that tells users if they were affected by Cambridge Analytica's data abuse, as it rolls out similar announcement in News Feed
what to do if you're one of them Firstpost : Facebook releases a tool which lets users know if their data was harvested by Cambridge Analytica Claire Reilly / CNET : An open letter to that useless Fac...