AI Risks Creating a ‘Demand Machine’ for Governments, Report Warns
Route Fifty covered RethinkAI’s piece on how artificial intelligence will increase demand for government services before it increases efficiency.
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Examining the Political Dynamics Behind Russia’s Paris 2024 Olympics Ban
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The Code That Launched Computational Policing and Modern Racial Profiling
In the early 1960s, a little-known experiment created today’s biased police surveillance.
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COVID-19 Is Stripping Resources From Mosquito Control Programs
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Police Tactics Are Making the Threat of COVID-19 Spread Among Protesters Worse
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What We Stand to Lose if We Let Aquariums Drown
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The Dawn of the COVID Self-Attestation
Some companies want employees to swear they have not had COVID-19 symptoms. But what good do these policies do?