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When Amazon tried to apply machine learning to recruitment, it trained the algorithm on data from résumés that human recruiters had evaluated. As a result, the system reproduced the biases implicit in the humans’ decisions, discriminating against résumés from women.
Spirals of Delusion
foreignaffairs.com
That is enough time for earthquake early-warning systems, such as those in use throughout Japan, to automatically perform a variety of lifesaving functions: shutting down railways and power plants, opening elevators and firehouse doors, alerting hospitals to halt surgeries, and triggering alarms so that the general public can take cover. The Pacific Northwest has no early-warning system.
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
newyorker.com
As Adolph Reed has noted, the temptation to become a racial spokesman has ensnared any number of Black intellectuals, lured by White prestige and the money that comes with it.
Perspective | Ibram X. Kendi’s Fall Is a Cautionary Tale — So Was His Rise
Tyler Austin Harper
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