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Anne Fausto Sterling<p>Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point<br>Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/tenure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tenure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/racial-bias-can-taint-academic-tenure-process-one-particular-point" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/ra</span><span class="invisible">cial-bias-can-taint-academic-tenure-process-one-particular-point</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Countless <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> had openly opposed the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWar</span></a>. As early as 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee produced a statement that unequivocally lambasted the war, and said that no Black American should “fight in Vietnam for the white man's freedom, until all the Negro people are free in Mississippi."</p><p>Still, thanks to the draft's implicit <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> , Black Americans disproportionately served in Vietnam. This is largely because then-college students — the majority of whom were white men — could defer enlistment. As such, the burden of enlistment fell more on non-college educated men, particularly non college-educated <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMen</span></a>. As a result, by 1967, 64 percent of all eligible Black American males had been drafted. Only 31 percent of eligible white men had.</p><p>Photo from Life Magazine archives.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SystematicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystematicRacism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhitePrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhitePrivilege</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/KKKAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KKKAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MilitaryDraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryDraft</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacistUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacistUSA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopAllWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopAllWars</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarIsHell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarIsHell</span></a></p>
Cubicgarden | blacklivesmatter<p>Detroit changes rules for police use of facial recognition after wrongful arrest of Black man | Detroit | from the guardian </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/01/detroit-police-facial-recognition-racial-bias" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/art</span><span class="invisible">icle/2024/jul/01/detroit-police-facial-recognition-racial-bias</span></a></p><p>> City to pay $300,000 to Robert Williams, whose driver’s license was incorrectly flagged in shoplifting investigation</p><p><a href="https://blacktwitter.io/tags/facialrecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facialrecognition</span></a> <a href="https://blacktwitter.io/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a> </p><p>Great stuff but why does it take one person to point out the obvious and go through all that stress 😳</p>
Strypey<p>"A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed 'thief' at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt 'racially discriminated' against and embarrassed during the 'horrible' birthday incident."</p><p><a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/supermarket-facial-recognition-trial-rotorua-mothers-discrimination-ordeal/IK4ZEJHLQVFRLMDE6LX4AR57PE/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-p</span><span class="invisible">ost/news/supermarket-facial-recognition-trial-rotorua-mothers-discrimination-ordeal/IK4ZEJHLQVFRLMDE6LX4AR57PE/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HR</span></a>: "Lately, Tatiana Becker has been flooded with work. As the founder of the boutique US firm NIAH Recruiting, she spends her days sifting through hundreds of resumes, hoping to fill dozens of roles at companies that have hired her to find matching employees.</p><p>Companies tend to hire the most at the start of the year, mainly because of hiring budgets that have been set and go into effect in the first quarter. “Everybody came back to work, and it’s been kind of insane,” Becker said in a recent interview. In her professional groups and in forums for human resources and recruiting, everyone is buzzing about the same thing: using new artificial intelligence tools to ease the workload.</p><p>In the race to embrace artificial intelligence, some businesses are using a new crop of generative AI products that can help screen and rank candidates for jobs — and some think these tools can even evaluate candidates more fairly than humans. But a Bloomberg analysis found that the best-known generative AI tool systematically produces biases that disadvantage groups based on their names." <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-openai-gpt-hiring-racial-discrimination/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-op</span><span class="invisible">enai-gpt-hiring-racial-discrimination/</span></a></p>
Jan Penfrat<p>Looks like not only the "Artificial Intelligence" used to recognise faces is incredibly dumb but also the <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>police</span></a> using it. <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/facialrecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>facialrecognition</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>racialbias</span></a> </p><p>"Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match"<br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/business/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/08/06/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html</span></a></p>
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