Hiring algorithms could filter candidates before interviews even take place.
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Effective implementation of existing law can protect us from the risks posed by AI algorithms.
Social media is being used all over the world to express hatred of Jews.
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Antisemitism today does not always appear in the form of traditional hate speech. It manifests in GIFs, memes, vlogs, comments and reactions on social media platforms.
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A UK controversy about school leavers’ marks shows algorithms can get things wrong. To ensure algorithms are as fair as possible, how they work and the trade-offs involved must be made clear.
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Our review of 45 studies on machines as managers shows we generally hate being slaves to algorithms.
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The Fair Work Commission’s ruling that delivery rider Diego Franco was an employee of Deliveroo is a major legal win for Australia’s gig workers.
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Employees at Amazon knew they were under constant surveillance and that the company had a history of sacking those who were pro-union.
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Food-ordering platform Menulog has declared it will break with the standard contractor business model. But let’s not get too excited yet.
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The departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru from Google highlights attempts to make algorithmic decision-making accountable.
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Handing management to algorithms creates ‘black-box bosses" whose decision-making is hard to understand or question.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump have had different approaches to tweeting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here the two talk during a NATO session in December 2019.
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A tale of two leaders on Twitter in the age of COVID-19.
The American Survival Research Foundation offered a reward of $1,000 for cracking one of Thouless’s two codes within three years of his death. It was not claimed.
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Computer capabilities have boosted our decryption technology to great heights. How will the future compare to a past, one in which codes were thought to be a means of communicating after death?
Should we be afraid of robo-justice?
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Automated tools could help encourage access to justice in areas such as divorce, owners corporation disputes and small value contracts.
Will marking algorithms really reward good writing?
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High grades might be awarded to papers that show the structural features of highly persuasive writing – papers that follow the “persuasion script”, so to speak.
Sport algorithms aren’t working for business.
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There are good reasons why business has not been as successful as sports teams at implementing algorithmic decision-making.
We need to build algorithms that act ethically.
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Creating an ethical machine learning system is no simple task, but maths can help.
Computers may come to fill many of the roles of traditional bank staff.
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On balance, computers may make better judges of risk than people.
Marketers are using your data to make predictions about what you’ll want, when.
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This is how marketers are taking advantage of customer data to build predictive algorithms, and even tailor their products and offerings.