Articles
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The Other Referee: Artificial Intelligence
Technology in the World Cup Unlike other sports, football has been slow to introduce technology to assist officiating, choosing to rely on human judgment as video replay would interrupt the flow of the match. The most notable flaw of this was the infamous Diego Maradona “Hand of God” goal in…
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Toeslagenaffaire: AI scandal in Netherlands ruins lives
Chermaine Leysner was one of the tens of thousands of Dutch citizens whose life was ruined by the “toeslagenaffaire”–the child care benefits scandal. One day, in 2012, she received a letter from the Dutch tax authority demanding she pay over €100,000 (~$105,000 USD) for child care allowance dating back to…
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Investigating AI Colonialism
A new MIT Technology Review series called AI Colonialism investigates the parallels between AI development and European colonialism. Although the AI industry doesn’t aim to capture land nor does it use mass-scale slavery, the industry has developed new methods of exploiting cheap labor. The series takes a closer look at…
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How AI Can Transform Companies
AI’s effects on companies Accenture CEO, Julie Sweet, in a contributing piece for Fortune Magazine, writes that artificial intelligence can reshape companies and redefine their industries. “AI unlocks business value by changing what you can do in fundamental ways, from enabling new human-plus-machine ways of working and smarter systems to…
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Regulating Facebook (*ahem* Meta)
Roddy Lindsay, a former Facebook data scientist, argues in his New York Times op-Ed that Congress should pass a simple reform: hold social media companies accountable for the content their algorithms promote. His urge comes in light of Frances Haugen’s Senate testimonies, in which the former Facebook product manager revealed…