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How Stanford researchers are designing fair and trustworthy AI systems

A look at the work of three experts examining the successes and failures of AI to create solutions that lead to a better world When John McCarthy, founder of the Stanford AI Lab, coined the term “artificial intelligence” in 1955 to describe “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines,” the defining feature of this…

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Big data study in Asia-Pacific provides key signposts to violence against women amid COVID-19

A new analysis reveals huge increases in online searches for help from intimate partner violence, as well as rising levels of digital misogyny and harassment Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March of last year, UNFPA and other advocates flagged that a “shadow pandemic” of domestic and gender-based violence was rapidly taking hold, with financial…