Above all else, AI is an idea—an ideal—shaped by worldviews and sci-fi tropes as much as by math and computer science. Figuring out what we are talking about when we talk about AI will clarify many things. We won’t agree on them, but common ground on what AIiswould be a great ...
“The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) recently showed students are still behind in reading and math, and that the gap between high-performing and low-performing students is widening.” “Betsy DeVos, Trump’s secretary of Educationin his first term…wrote in anop-ed for The...
Through censorship policies that limit teaching about racism in K-12 schools (Bridgeforth & O’Neal, 2024) and anti-DEI policies that have decimated multicultural centers and programming on college campuses (Lange & Lee, 2024), it is not hyperbole to say that our education systems are under a...
It also offers a critique of the limitations of anti-racist ideas and suggests that the way forward is not to reinforce a 'flight' from anti-racism, but to build on the gains of anti-racist ideas and struggles in social work practice towards developing a more integrated understanding of ...
In an April 17hearingwith the committee, Columbia President Minouche Shafik said Sidechat was "poisonous" and that "probably the most egregious cases that we've seen of antisemitism, Islamophobia, racist comments have been on social media on those anonymous channels." ...
Confronted with protests against systemic racism in the United States, companies are now working to ensure that their workforces and communities are more diverse, equitable and inclusive. But what does anti-racist business strategy look like in practice? There is no one-size-fits all approach, bu...
What it means to be an anti-racist employer While many organizations have promoted diversity and inclusion over the years, the idea of beingexplicitly anti-racist may be a newer concept to some. "To be anti-racist is to acknowledge the permanence of racism through organizations, industries and...
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Is AI math or magic?Either way, people have strong, almost religious beliefs in one or the other. “It’s offensive to some people to suggest that human intelligence could be re-created through these kinds of mechanisms,” Ellie Pavlick, who studies neural networks at Brown University, t...
We’ll wait until the year is totally over to give you a rank, but it is very, very high. UK Met Office forecasts next year to set new record Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math 10 …and that heat brought extreme, killer heat waves Hot, Very Hot, Extremely Hot Summers [STUDY: TV...