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The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the high-profile organization apart

ChatGPT and Gemini discriminate against those who speak African American Vernacular English, report shows

Timnit Gebru also argued that leaving A.I. to tech bosses to regulate themselves wouldn’t work.

Sunday night phone call between president and Republican House speaker reported to have struck a more positive tone. Plus, how solar farms took over the California desert

The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination

Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn’t mean they agree on what those dangers are or how to prevent them

We need more safeguards in place to prevent us from mistaking machines for humans

A number of high-profile whistleblowers in the technology industry have stepped into the spotlight in the past few years. For the most part, they have been revealing corporate practices that thwart the public interest: Frances Haugen exposed personal data exploitation at Meta, Timnit Gebru and Rebecca Rivers challenged Google on…

First Theranos, and now AI researchers, are being opaque about their work. Should we trust them?