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Ep 1 - Ian Schuler - Building an impact driven geospatial company

Minds Behind Maps

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Is There a Risk of Bias in AI?

I think that this is actually a really important conversation to have. There is a groups that we're working with in humanitarian space that want to do everything from be able to use AI to model crop output and to do better prediction of crop output. We just did a bunch of school detection work with UNICEF where we were able to detect tens of thousands, I don't know if I'm a fan, but tens of thousands of new unmapped schools in eight countries. And the places that you're likely to miss actually are probably schools that represent communities that are already underrepresented in other ways. So there's a risk that development organizations invest in a set of closed tools that ultimately erode

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