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Graduate students are helping to infuse ethical computing content into MIT’s largest machine learning course, as part of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing initiative.
Risk assessment instruments are used across the criminal justice system to estimate the probability of some future behavior given covariates. The estimated probabilities are then used in making decisions at the individual level. In the past, there has been controversy about whether the probabilities derived from group-level calculations can meaningfully be applied to individuals. Using Bayesian hierarchical models applied to a large longitudinal dataset from the court system in the state of Kentucky, we analyze variation in individual-level probabilities of failing to appear for court and the ...
Co-hosted with 'The Atlantic,' the April 6-8 event will include Barack Obama, Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, and many other experts.
Democrats and Republicans in Congress demonstrated a rare moment of bipartisan unity only weeks before the 2020 presidential election. The House Judiciary Committee was holding a hearing on whether Big Tech corporations like Facebook and Twitter should be broken up. While many of the witnesses discussed antitrust law and other regulatory issues, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) made it obvious that he had a whole different agenda.
The CDEI has set out the steps required to build a world-leading AI assurance ecosystem in the UK.