These NLP models are behind every technology using text such as resume screening, university admissions, essay grading, voice assistants, the internet, social media recommendations, dating applications, news article summarizations, machine translation, and text generation.

Using the job applicant names provided in the labor market discrimination study during bias quantification in word embeddings exposes strong negative associations with African Americans as a social group.

In 2004, a controlled study on labor market discrimination found that resumes that contain uniquely white names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews compared to resumes with uniquely African American names with the same qualifications.

For example, sentences that contain words related to kitchen or arts tend to contain words related to women. However, sentences that contain career, science, and technology terms tend to contain words related to men.

Social media platforms automatically decide which users should be exposed to certain types of content present in political advertisements and information influence operations, based on personality characteristics predicted from their data.

Technology companies that develop cutting edge AI have become disproportionately powerful with the data they collect from billions of internet users

Amazon soon abandoned the automated recruitment tool after they discovered the bias.

nsupervised artificial intelligence (AI) models that automatically discover hidden patterns in natural language datasets capture linguistic regularities that reflect human biases, such as racism, sexism, and ableism.

The top 10 percent owns 86 percent of the wealth, while the top 20 percent owns 94 percent of the wealth. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the population is experiencing stagnating and declining wages.

Black intelligence is always guilty before proven innocent in the court of the life of the mind: The Bell Curve2 is just a manifestation of the cycle.

In any discussion about race matters it is vital to situate yourself in a tradition, in a larger narrative that links the past to the present. When we think of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Buelle Wells-Barnett, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Ella Baker, James Baldwin,1 and so many nameless and anonymous ones, we cannot but be moved by their standards of vision and courage. They are wind at one’s back.

During the past several decades the word has been appropriated to describe a type of online content that is usually visual and takes on a particular aesthetic design, combining colorful, striking images with block text. It often refers to other cultural and media events, sometimes explicitly but mostly implicitly.

New World Disorder

Hate-filled posts aimed at the Muslim community would proliferate, the speculation and outrage boosted by algorithms responding to unprecedented levels of shares, comments and likes.

These workers will adeptly combine technical skills with interpersonal interaction, flexibility and adaptability to offer services that are uniquely human.

this category includes numerous jobs for people in the skilled trades and repair: plumbers; builders; electricians; heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installers; automotive technicians; customer-service representatives; and even clerical workers who are required to do more than type and file.

Preparing a meal, driving a truck through city traffic or cleaning a hotel room present mind-bogglingly complex challenges for computers. But they are straightforward for humans, requiring primarily innate abilities like dexterity, sightedness and language recognition, as well as modest training. These workers can’t be replaced by robots, but their skills are not scarce, so they usually make low wages.

Labor-saving technological change necessarily displaces workers performing certain tasks — that’s where the gains in productivity come from

In 1900, for example, 41 percent of the United States work force was in agriculture. By 2000, that share had fallen to 2 percent, after the Green Revolution transformed crop yields.

Luddites staged a machine-trashing rebellion.

at a given time and among a certain population, an item has a market value that does not depend on whether one owns it or not

“We would all like to have a warning bell that rings loudly whenever we are about to make a serious error,” Kahneman writes, “but no such bell is available.”

Most of them have focused on money. When asked whether they would prefer to have, say, $150 today or $180 in one month, people tend to choose the $150.

Critics like to say the Internet causes our minds to wander off, but we’ve been wandering off all along.

To read silently is to free your mind to reflect, to remember, to question and compare.

, he was stunned to see him looking at a book and not saying anything.

It would be much safer, Plato thought, to entrust power to carefully educated guardians.

Fairness alone didn’t seem to be enough. If it were, Estlund wrote, “why not flip a coin?”

About as many are incapable of naming even one of the three branches of the United States government.