Embed iframe src https://www.npr.org/player/embed/968710172/968827605 width 100% height 290 frameborder 0 scrolling no title NPR embedded audio player Facial recognition researcher Joy Buolamwini stands for a portrait behind a mask she had to use so that software could detect her face. Buolamwini s research has uncovered racial and gender bias in facial analysis tools sold by companies such as Amazon that have a hard time recognizing certain faces, especially darker-skinned women. Steven Senne/AP
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Facial recognition researcher Joy Buolamwini stands for a portrait behind a mask she had to use so that software could detect her face. Buolamwini s research has uncovered racial and gender bias in facial analysis tools sold by companies such as Amazon that have a hard time recognizing certain faces, especially darker-skinned women.
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Elizabeth Renieris
Elizabeth M. Renieris, a technology and human rights fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a practitioner fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab, has been appointed founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
Launched in 2020, the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab aims to address ethical questions associated with the development and use of emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning. The lab serves as the applied research arm of Notre Dame’s Technology Ethics Center (ND-TEC), which develops and supports multi- and interdisciplinary research on questions related to the impact of technology on humanity.
Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy â and that s bad for the economy
One in six adult Canadians falls short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests, making them functionally illiterate, and this could mean problems as a post-COVID-19 economic recovery ramps up.
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Posted: Jan 17, 2021 8:05 AM ET | Last Updated: January 17
Poor reading and writing skills make up a literacy gap in Canada. Experts say the gap is due in part to an abundance of jobs in the past that do not require the daily use of reading comprehension and information synthesis skills.(FabrikaSimf/Shutterstock)