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Last Week in AI

Hate Speech, Applied AI, NYPD, & Grades

Aug 26, 2020
Daniel Bashir, an AI news summarizer, joins Stanford PhDs Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou to delve into recent AI developments. They tackle controversial topics like NYPD's facial recognition use during protests, raising ethical concerns about surveillance. The discussion shifts to the struggles of social media platforms, especially Facebook, in managing hate speech and misinformation. They also critique the fairness of algorithms used for student grading during the pandemic, highlighting the need for better methods to support educational equity.
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