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  • Rest of World Labor x Tech Reporting Fellowship | Rest of World

    March 23, 2023

    Rest of World is excited to announce a new opportunity for reporters native to regions outside the West who want to produce a deeply reported body of work on how […]

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  • Language models might be able to self-correct biases—if you ask them | MIT Technology Review

    March 22, 2023

    Large language models are infamous for spewing toxic biases, thanks to the reams of awful human-produced content they get trained on. But if the models are large enough, and humans […]

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  • Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams | Platformer

    March 22, 2023

    Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned. The […]

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  • Those meddling kids! The Reverse Scooby-Doo theory of tech innovation comes with the excuses baked in | Nieman Journalism Lab

    March 16, 2023

    There’s a standard trope that tech evangelists deploy when they talk about the latest fad. It goes something like this: 1. Technology XYZ is arriving. It will be incredible for […]

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  • Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms | Knight First Amendment Institute

    March 14, 2023

    When we speak online—when we share a thought, write an essay, post a photo or video—who will hear us? The answer is determined in large part by algorithms. In computer […]

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  • AI will not revolutionise journalism, but it is far from a fad | Oxford Internet Institute

    March 7, 2023

    If it were up to ChatGPT, the introduction to this piece would read as follows: ‘Many people seem to believe that artificial intelligence, specifically large language models like ChatGPT, will […]

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  • Generative AI and Copyright: An Interview with Jonathan Band | Association of Research Libraries

    February 16, 2023

    For Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2023, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) senior director of Scholarship and Policy, Judy Ruttenberg, interviewed Jonathan Band, counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), which […]

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  • Deana A. Rohlinger

    February 8, 2023

    Deana A. Rohlinger is a Professor of Sociology, Director of Research for the Institute of Politics, a research associate in the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, and an […]

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  • Heidi Tworek

    February 8, 2023

    Heidi Tworek is Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her work examines the history […]

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  • GWU: Anthroencryption: Strategies for Protecting the World’s Vulnerable People

    February 1, 2023

    Governments, humanitarian organizations and private contractors are capturing, storing and sharing an ever increasing volume of identity data, much of it pertaining to individuals such as refugees, whistleblowers and other […]

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