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March 20, 2023

Associated Press: Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

Associated Press: Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities. “The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities.”

March 1, 2023

The Conversation: How fitness influencers game the algorithms to pump up their engagement

The Conversation: How fitness influencers game the algorithms to pump up their engagement. “In our recent article for the Academy of Management Journal, we explain how just establishing a social media presence doesn’t mean a would-be influencer can easily reach clients, as the social media platform’s algorithm determines who sees what posts, and when. And even if influencers do attract large followings, social media users shouldn’t necessarily buy what the influencers are selling.”

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February 17, 2023

University of Southern California: Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data

University of Southern California: Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data. “USC Viterbi researchers have developed a fairness enhancing algorithm that also keeps data secure.”

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February 13, 2023

University of Texas at Austin: Algorithms That Adjust for Worker Race, Gender Still Show Biases

University of Texas at Austin: Algorithms That Adjust for Worker Race, Gender Still Show Biases. “Even after algorithms are adjusted for overt hiring discrimination, they may show a subtler kind: preferring workers who mirror dominant groups, according to a new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.”

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January 31, 2023

Associated Press: Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

Associated Press: Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny. “The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that it could result in discrimination against families with disabilities, The Associated Press has learned.”

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January 26, 2023

Fast Company: How to start fresh by resetting algorithms for YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and more

Fast Company: How to start fresh by resetting algorithms for YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and more. “You can kill your algorithms very easily with many of the most-popular streaming-video services. Others require more finagling. Here’s a quick guide to resetting recommendations on the web and your phone (typically the same for Android and iOS) for YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, and Paramount+.”

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January 12, 2023

Radio Prague International: Czech scientists tracing origins of medieval Gregorian chants

Radio Prague International: Czech scientists tracing origins of medieval Gregorian chants . “Czech scientists, in cooperation with their colleagues from Great Britain, are carrying out research aimed at tracing the origins of medieval Gregorian chants. They are doing so with the help of computational algorithms, that are commonly used in biology.”

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January 4, 2023

Search Engine Journal: Is This Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm?

Search Engine Journal: Is This Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm?. “Google published a groundbreaking research paper about identifying page quality with AI. The details of the algorithm seem remarkably similar to what the helpful content algorithm is known to do.”

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December 13, 2022

Daily Beast: Gen Z Is Ready to Torpedo Social Media’s Echo Chambers

Daily Beast: Gen Z Is Ready to Torpedo Social Media’s Echo Chambers. “Our social media feeds are complex and infinite. They are online spaces that are curated by algorithm data that predict what we like. By tracking our every move, social media will seamlessly find and give us content that is, as TikTok so presciently states, ‘for you.’ It seems that our decision to double tap or swipe up has bigger consequences than we think. And members of Gen Z, myself included, are anxious to see social media structures dismantled and reformed into something that we don’t have to fear.”

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December 12, 2022

MIT News: An automated way to assemble thousands of objects

MIT News: An automated way to assemble thousands of objects. “…researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Autodesk Research, and Texas A&M University came up with a method to automatically assemble products that’s accurate, efficient, and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies. Their algorithm efficiently determines the order for multipart assembly, and then searches for a physically realistic motion path for each step.”

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December 11, 2022

New York Times: They’re Taking Jigsaws to Infinity and Beyond

New York Times: They’re Taking Jigsaws to Infinity and Beyond. “Ms. Rosenkrantz and Mr. Louis-Rosenberg are algorithmic artists who make laser-cut wooden jigsaw puzzles — among other curios — at their design studio, Nervous System, in Palenville, N.Y. Inspired by how shapes and forms emerge in nature, they write custom software to ‘grow’ intertwining puzzle pieces. Their signature puzzle cuts have names like dendrite, amoeba, maze and wave.”

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December 11, 2022

Esquire: How to Unfriend Your Dead Brother

Esquire: How to Unfriend Your Dead Brother. “As months passed, I attempted to accept Andrew’s death, but his digital self refused to. By all accounts—literally—he lived on. When did technology become the guy who casually brings up traumatic events without noticing he’s crippling you?”

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December 10, 2022

Yale Insights: Building Trust with the Algorithms in Our Lives

Yale Insights: Building Trust with the Algorithms in Our Lives. “Consumers are wary of the recommendations made by algorithms. But according to new research co-authored by Yale SOM’s Taly Reich, showing that an algorithm can learn—that it improves over time—helps to resolve this distrust.”

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December 8, 2022

Bloomberg: US Sides Against Google in Consequential Social Media Case

Bloomberg: US Sides Against Google in Consequential Social Media Case. “The Biden administration told the US Supreme Court that social media companies in some cases can be held liable for promoting harmful speech, partially siding with a family seeking to sue Alphabet Inc.’s Google over a terrorist attack. In a Supreme Court filing on Wednesday night, the Justice Department argued that social media websites should be held responsible for some of the ways their algorithms decide what content to put in front of users.”

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December 7, 2022

MIT News: A faster way to preserve privacy online

MIT News: A faster way to preserve privacy online. “MIT researchers have now developed a scheme for private information retrieval that is about 30 times faster than other comparable methods. Their technique enables a user to search an online database without revealing their query to the server. Moreover, it is driven by a simple algorithm that would be easier to implement than the more complicated approaches from previous work.”

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Associated Press: Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

University of Southern California: Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data

University of Texas at Austin: Algorithms That Adjust for Worker Race, Gender Still Show Biases

Associated Press: Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

Fast Company: How to start fresh by resetting algorithms for YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and more

Radio Prague International: Czech scientists tracing origins of medieval Gregorian chants

Search Engine Journal: Is This Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm?

MIT News: An automated way to assemble thousands of objects

New York Times: They’re Taking Jigsaws to Infinity and Beyond

Yale Insights: Building Trust with the Algorithms in Our Lives

MIT News: A faster way to preserve privacy online

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