Global Effort Begins To Stop Social Media From Spreading Terrorism
By: Sasha Ingber April 24, 2019 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that she and French President Emmanuel Macron will lead a global effort to stop social media from promoting terrorism in the wake of recent attacks that devastated New Zealand and Sri Lanka. “This isn’t about freedom of expression; this is about […]
Why American CEOs are worried about capitalism
By: Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson April 22, 2019 When Roger Williams got his turn at the microphone earlier this month, his question for the bank CEOs lined up before the House committee on financial services seemed an unusual one to put to seven sharp-suited financiers. “Are you a socialist or are you a capitalist?” the Texas Republican […]
Why No One Feels Rich: The Psychology Of Inequality
By:Shankar Vedatam, Parth Shah, Tara Boyle, Rhaina Cohen April 22, 2019 When Keith Payne was in the fourth grade, he realized he was poor. The epiphany came to him in the cafeteria. “We had a new cashier in the line that day,” he said. “And when I got to the cashier’s desk she asked me […]
Ethics committee raises alarm over ‘predictive policing’ tool
By: TheGuardian April 20, 2019 A computer tool used by police to predict which people are likely to reoffend has come under scrutiny from one force’s ethics committee, who said there were a lot of “unanswered questions” and concerns about potential bias. Amid mounting financial pressure, at least a dozen police forces are using or […]
Scientists Gene-Edited HIV to Cure “Bubble Boy” Disease
By: Kristin Houser April 14, 2019 Normal Lives Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have reportedly used HIV to cure infants born with “bubble boy” disease — a remarkable example of hijacking a deadly virus for a new treatment. “The children are cured,” researcher Ewelina Mamcarz told NBC News. “They came to us as […]
Creating the present by imagining the future: The power of science fiction
By: Charles-Edouard Bouée April 15, 2019 Technological progress is growing exponentially and we hazard that the so-called obsolescence of the law attributed to Moore will have no consequence whatsoever on this surge. We are experiencing a tremendous cultural shift in the way we adapt to technological changes. We are pushed to turn our relation to […]
Notes on AI Bias
By: Benedict Evans September 15, 2019 Machine learning finds patterns in data. ‘AI Bias’ means that it might find the wrong patterns – a system for spotting skin cancer might be paying more attention to whether the photo was taken in a doctor’s office. ML doesn’t ‘understand’ anything – it just looks for patterns in […]
We need a reskilling revolution. Here’s how to make it happen
By: Børge Brende April 15, 2019 As the world faces the transformative economic, social and environmental challenges of Globalization 4.0, it has never been more important to invest in people. Valuing human capital not only serves to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills to respond to systemic shifts, it also empowers them to take […]
The white paper on online harms is a global first. It has never been more needed
By: John Naughton April 14, 2019 On Monday last week, the government published its long-awaited white paper on online harms. It was launched at the British Library by the two cabinet ministers responsible for it – Jeremy Wright of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the home secretary, Sajid Javid. Wright […]