Race and Research: What’s Next?
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English - June 25, 2021 12:30 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsGovernment News Politics pew Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Stat: 68%: The percentage of technology experts who express doubt about ethical standards in artificial intelligence systems.
Story: Technology driven by artificial intelligence and other data science will lead to life-changing innovation in the coming years. But much of the historical data those innovations will rely on could be biased. In this episode, Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at the Pew Research Center, reports on the growing ethical concerns of technology experts about the use of artificial intelligence. And Jeannette Wing, who leads the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, discusses ways scientists are confronting bias and how to use “data for good.”