Education technology powered by artificial intelligence appears to make classrooms more equitable, but the tech may do more harm than good.

Senate inquiry into Australian consultancy industry concedes its integrity has been undermined by reliance on case studies generated by Google Bard AI tool

Hundreds of documents obtained by 404 Media show how Fusus, a system for linking a town’s security cameras into one central hub and adding AI to them, has spread across the country.

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

The widespread deployment of AI in U.S. healthcare will succeed only with the establishment of a national infrastructure for open health data.

Here are 18 books written by scholars and technology experts that cut through all the hype and will forever change the way you think about…

Artificially intelligent analysis of job applications or videos is "pseudoscience", researchers say.

We’ve generally come to accept that our devices are listening to our conversations, our personal data is being tracked and sold, and that law enforcement tracks and stores images of our own faces. But is there anything to be done about our dwindling digital privacy? While there is a growing community of people committed to protecting our privacy...

A new report suggests that the money Big Tech companies keep in the banking system can do more climate damage than the products they sell.

New research and Facebook’s own ad archive show that the company’s new system to ensure diverse audiences for housing and employment ads has many of the same problems as its predecessor.

AI won't really resemble humanoids. Instead, AI will create a world that countries and large companies can live in.

The government announces leads for independent reviews into ethnic inequalities for medical devices and tobacco control.

The NHS AI Lab and @HealthFdn have awarded £1.4 million to 4 projects to address racial and ethnic health inequalities using artificial Announcement here https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/news/new-artificial-intelligence-projects-funded-to-tackle-health-inequalities/

Analysis: issues with some gadgets could contribute to poorer outcomes for women and people of colour

A sweeping AI has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse. With the creeping privatisation of our National Health Services, could the U.K. see similar opaque algorithms creating barriers here?

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What do I mean by a cock-up? Well, @CDEIUK more tactfully call them “faulty or biased systems”. They include: 📌 Black women being twice as likely to have their passport photos rejected by the Home Office. 📌 The A-level saga 📌 The London Gangs Matrix— Rachel Coldicutt (@rachelcoldicutt) November 26, 2020

The NYPD uses biometric technologies such as facial recognition to identify crime suspects, but dark-skinned people are misidentified 40% of the time. To imagine a future where we don't deploy facial recognition & policing, #ForFreedoms & @ai4theppl launched #HeartRecognition: pic.twitter.com/5dnmxZAFLv— For Freedoms (@forfreedoms) June 21, 2021

Workplace challenges posed by new technology could be answered by very traditional solutions. "Nevertheless, there is also substantial historical evidence that technological changes tend to affect lower-paid and lower-qualified workers more than others. This suggests there are likely to be unequal effects that cause disruption for some people or places more than others,"

A new paper from the MIT Media Lab’s Joy Buolamwini shows that three commercial facial-analysis programs demonstrate gender and skin-type biases, and suggests a new, more accurate method for evaluating the performance of such machine-learning systems.

A blog examining the legal implications of the use of AI in the workplace.

These are the four most popular misconceptions people have about race & gender bias in algorithms.I'm wary of wading into this conversation again, but it's important to acknowledge the research that refutes each point, despite it feeling counter-intuitive.Let me clarify.👇🏾 https://t.co/WdzmnGLaFm— Deb Raji (@rajiinio) March 27, 2021

Proctored exams have a bias toward students from racial minorities and other disadvantaged groups.

Britain must urgently regulate how companies use artificial intelligence (AI) at work, unions said on Thursday, warning of widespread discrimination if the technology is left unchecked.

What are data and technology? How do they impact Black lives in our health systems?