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Just 6% of respondents said they ensure AI is used ethically and responsibly by making development teams diverse.

This tool draws from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2000-2016) to provide a snapshot of the U.S. Psychology Workforce on race/ethnicity, age and disability status.

I have had the privilege of being at Google for the past six years. One of the most impressive things I’ve seen there was an Ethical AI…

Overview of the demographic and educational characteristics, employment settings, direct patient/client care provision, and other provider-related information for licensed health service psychologists in the United States.

The cache includes data on 1.7 million incidents, giving insight into the scale of Citizen around the country.

This report describes racial and ethnic disparities in stress and worry, mental health, and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The social network expands punishments for misleading posts to individuals for the first time.

Since March 2020, New York Times reporters have tracked every known coronavirus case in every correctional setting in the nation. More than 2,700 inmates have died.

We built a model that attempts to predict a wine’s quality

While airports in major cities are still struggling, some smaller airports that are vacation destinations are busier than before the pandemic.

Using data gathering and analysis techniques, a CBC News Investigation has catalogued just a portion of one fake review network on Google's My Business pages — 208 fake accounts that posted 3,574 fake reviews for 1,279 businesses across North America.

You have to do your own risk assessment. Here's how.

The future of social is multiplayer

Listen to this episode from POLITICO's Nerdcast on Spotify. Five cities, four countries and 15 days locked down in Australia: Global Translations author Ryan Heath talks to Playbook's Tara Palmeri about his 68-hour travel journey to get Down Under. He peers inside the hellish future of global travel and explains why it might be more expensive for travelers. Plus, a surprise ending to this special Nerdcast episode. Tara Palmeri is a POLITICO Playbook co-author.  Scott Bland is a politics editor at POLITICO. Ryan Heath is  a senior editor at Politico and author of Global Translations. Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio. Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.

Just like "boob streamers" before them, the hot tub meta has become a kind of boogeyman.

Prioritizing health of the world’s population would add 10 healthy years in midlife and $12 trillion to the global economy .

“If she was my mom, I would take her to the hospital,” Dr. P.J. Parmar said through a barely cracked car window to a refugee family from South Asia on April 11. Parmar, who runs Ardas Family Medicine in Aurora, had been the family’s doctor for years. He knew the woman sitting in the backseat […]

Such ads, along with other age-targeted financial product ads, may violate civil rights laws, attorneys say

Four major influenza epidemics were recorded between 1830 and 1848. The 1830-1831 epidemic may have originated in China; then and in 1833 influenza advanced westward out of Russia into Europe. In 1836-1837, influenza diffusion was largely north to south, and in 1847-1848 the disease swept through th …

Twitter introduces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation

During a plague outbreak in 1899, officials in Honolulu quarantined and burned the city’s Chinatown. Some Covid-19 talk today echoes their rhetoric.

Public health officials all over the United States—indeed globally—are trying to decide how to deal with the world’s coronavirus pandemic.   They know the Public health officials all over the United States—indeed globally—are trying to decide how to deal with the world’s coronavirus pandemic. They know the coronavirus originated in China, and they know they can identify it with certainty. But they do not know what might kill it, and they have no cure for anyone who contracts it.

A new study shows that leading AI models are 1.5 times more likely to flag tweets written by African Americans as "offensive" compared to other tweets.

This is a story about maps and death.

Moore's Law has been ridiculously accurate for more than 50 years - how long will it hold up?See in this visualization how the actual transistors in CPUs and...