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On the sources of datasets AI uses for training.
Female managers are often told they just need to demand more pay; research shows they are undermined by being given smaller roles
Ask these five questions to make sure employees are being treated equitably.
Researchers from Ireland, the UK and the US have warned that the growth in hyperscale AI training datasets threaten to propagate the worst aspects of their internet sources, contending that a recently-released academic dataset features ‘troublesome and explicit images and text pairs of rape, pornography, malign stereotypes, racist and ethnic slurs, and other extremely problematic […]
Commentary: In a series of conversations, women explain how online trolls are demotivating them from talking tech.
Why are fewer women promoted to senior positions than men? In a study of a retail chain, Prof. Kelly Shue and her co-authors found that women got higher performance ratings than men but were incorrectly judged as having less leadership potential.
The Broadsheet, Fortune Most Powerful Women by Kristen Bellstrom, Claire Zillman, and Emma Hinchliffe
After a woman got harassed for posting a bikini selfie, several members of the cybersecurity community posted their own selfies to show solidarity.
Their experiences couldn’t be more different.
Advocates of open source inclusiveness felt sidelined this March when the Free Software Foundation (FSF) reelected Richard Stallman to its board of directors. And this week, the FSF doubled down on this controversial decision in a statement on the election of Stallman. This move echoes a lot of the issues that the open source community…
A similar audit of LinkedIn found ads were shown to women equally as often
What happened at Pinterest fits an unnerving pattern in the tech industry that has fallen behind even legacy industries in diversity and inclusion. Janice Mins reports.
"We are trying to achieve pay equity across all genders and races in the world in our lifetime."
In September, Timnit Gebru, then co-leader of the ethical AI team at Google, sent a private message on Twitter to Emily Bender, a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington.
Vocal coach and former radio host Veronica Rueckert on the power of women's voices.
The workers said they endured racist comments, and sexual harassment
New controversies around Britney Spears and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' have spurred a larger reckoning with how pop culture treated young women a generation ago
Read the full report here. Executive Summary The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol demonstrated how online disinformation can have severe offline consequences. For some time, the problems and possible impacts on democracy caused by online mis- and dis-information have dominated public policy discussions and thus research about these topics has developed rapidly in […]
Amazon talks up inclusion in public but fails behind the scenes, suit claims.