Ethics in Machine Learning: Interview with Dr. Hanie Sedghi
On a not-very-sunny day in our Golden State of California, I sat down (virtually) with Dr. Hanie Sedghi to discuss the topic of ethics in Machine Learning. Born and raised… Read more »
On a not-very-sunny day in our Golden State of California, I sat down (virtually) with Dr. Hanie Sedghi to discuss the topic of ethics in Machine Learning. Born and raised… Read more »
For some time now I have been thinking about the social and human rights implications of Artificial Intelligence in our lives. Following every news item and talks and events and… Read more »
Last month, I had dinner with a few friends. One of them had recently started a position at Zoosk, an online dating mobile app. The conversation ranged between living in… Read more »
Originally published on Access Now Blog In January of this year, more than 60 Californians braved the rain and gathered in Palo Alto to protest against the possibility that Palantir… Read more »
For a country like the United States which still feels the burden of the Civil War and the shame of slavery on its shoulders, the legacy of a “free person” has its own special,… Read more »
In previous posts I have focused on the role of private sector and more specifically high-tech corporations such as Palantir and Microsoft in the fight against sex trafficking. In this blog post… Read more »
In this blog post I brought up different viewpoints on the #HackTrafficking4Good, a social justice hackathon to stop sex trafficking that held in Boston in January. Because, I couldn’t attend this interesting event,… Read more »
The Six Degrees of Separation is a theory that claims every person in this world is only 6 or fewer steps away from another person. It means that only by… Read more »
Have you ever stopped to think how many photos circulate online? A 2014 study estimated that internet users share 1.8 billion images every day. Snapchat users alone share around 9,000 photos each… Read more »
Sunshine flooded the halls of an annex room in the United Nations General Assembly Building. The place was packed. The flags of the member nations of the UN were visible through the… Read more »