ADELAIDE These are tough times for the humanities. Too many liberal arts subjects have come to be seen as fusty and irrelevant. Who can afford to invest in a four-year education focusing on the wisdom of the Mayan civilization or the nuances of Japanese poetry? To adapt Churchill’s famous 1939 aphorism about understanding Russia, students today confront a pandemic, wrapped
ADELAIDE These are tough times for the humanities. Too many liberal arts subjects have come to be seen as fusty and irrelevant. Who can afford to invest in a four-year education focusing on the wisdom of the Mayan civilization or the nuances of Japanese poetry? To adapt Churchill’s famous 1939 aphorism about understanding Russia, students today confront a pandemic, wrapped
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Is it right to warn people when an algorithm predicts they are likely to commit a crime? Should the use of a facial recognition artificial intelligence tool that identifies people as gay be banned? Is it right for a visa application screening .
Data-gathering patterns are far beyond even the most insightful human observers, and the bases of the fortunes of tech giants Facebook and Google, writes Nicholas Agar In pre-pandemic times a friend running a New Zealand web design company received a job application from an American IT professional. Knowing little about him, they went to Facebook. There they found a 'like' for Donald Trump’s Facebook page. And that was the end of serious.