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Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse
The risks of algorithmic discrimination and bias have received much attention and scrutiny, and rightly so. Yet there is another more insidious side-effect of our increasingly AI-powered society — the systematic inequality created by the changing nature of work itself. Read full Article
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Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
We worship efficiency. Use less to get more. Same-day delivery. Multitask; text on one device while emailing on a second, and perhaps conversing on a third. Efficiency is seen as good. Inefficiency as wasteful. There’s a sound rationale for thinking this way. Read full Article
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A Job Guarantee
As I continue to research the societal factors that influence our future, I’ve explored broad topics from Government Deficits to Modern Monetary Theory. Most recently, I’ve looked into something that lies at the heart of many societal ills; unemployment and underemployment. Read full Article
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Virtual Conferences Mean All-Access—Except When They Don’t
If this season’s virtual tech events have offered a kind of blueprint for what may come—a beta test, if you will—they’ve proven there’s still blank space for the communal elements humans crave. Read full Article
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Apple’s AI plan: a thousand small conveniences
AI has become an integral part of every tech company’s pitch to consumers. Fail to hype up machine learning or neural networks when unveiling a new product, and you might as well be hawking hand-cranked calculators. This can lead to overpromising. Read full Article
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Experts predict what it’ll take to find a job in a post-Covid world
In February, employers were hiring [during] a roaring job market. It was really the strongest job market in any of our lifetimes. Today, probably about one-third of the workforce is working from home under COVID-19 in the US, and I don’t expect that is going to last. Read full Article
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Why Are Women-Led Nations Doing Better With Covid-19?
Monday was a day of triumph for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Thanks to the efforts of the entire nation, she said, New Zealand had been largely successful in meeting its ambitious goal of eradicating, rather than just controlling, outbreaks of Covid-19. Read full Article
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