Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent’
By: Guardian June 6, 2021 The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithm. Kate Crawford studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor of communication and science and technology studies at the University of […]
No One is Policing Corporate America, and White-Collar Crime is on The Rise. What Comes Next Could be a Full-Scale Financial Meltdown
By: Business Insider June 6, 2021 The coronavirus pandemic hit the Cheesecake Factory hard. Like millions of restaurants, the company watched as most of its business disappeared overnight. By April 2020 the chain — with over 220 restaurants and 46,000 employees — was near death. The company was losing $6 million a week with just 16 […]