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Yet there is no parallel in algorithmic auditing, as algorithmic harms tend to be individualized and hard to diagnose. Plus, companies don’t face consequences when their algorithms are discriminatory. If anything, self-evaluation and disclosure can pose a bigger risk. For instance, people remember that Amazon built a sexist hiring algorithm, but may forget that Amazon discovered the problem and scrapped the project on its own. Amazon’s lack of transparency about the project, which was discovered through an investigative report, also contributed to the blowback. However, the company might have been just as well off, at least in the public eye, by doing no introspection at all. … [Read more...] about Independent auditors are struggling to hold AI companies accountable

Take for instance my client, Samantha, who heads an intellectual property law group for a media company. She wanted to grow her career, but she liked diving deep into legal matters, which kept her from delegating sufficiently and limited her bandwidth. Or Vijay, who led a large Quality Assurance lab at a life sciences company and had inadvertently become a bottleneck in his department’s ability to move quickly. Both Samantha and Vijay were showing up as technical experts for their teams, but their narrow and focused efforts were diminishing their respective professional trajectories, as well as their team’s growth. … [Read more...] about Why taking up an ‘anti-expert mindset’ leads you to fresh ideas

Other signatories of the open letter include ClassPass founder and executive chairman Payal Kadakia, model and transgender advocate Geena Rocero, SHE Summit founder Claudia Chan, The Cru founder Tiffany Dufu, Birchbox cofounder and CEO Katia Beauchamp, Rent the Runway cofounder and CEO Jennifer Hyman, and actresses Gabrielle Union, Julianne Moore, and Alyssa Milano. … [Read more...] about Amy Schumer, Eva Longoria, Tarana Burke, and others say Biden stimulus checks should go monthly to moms

The subtext there is that the agency is likely trying to avoid the chaos and confusion that reigned supreme during the first round of grants as small businesses flooded the SBA with requests for cash. That the program is more targeted this time around is not surprising, as the open nature of the previous round made it subject to “widespread potential fraud,” the Office of Inspector General warned in July. … [Read more...] about SBA targeted advance: What small businesses need to know about the disaster loan program for 2021

Why now? Pavlovsky notes that Shutterstock isn’t just a stock photo company—in addition to stock content and image editing tools, the company launched a content creation platform Shutterstock Studios in November of last year. The TurboSquid acquisition indicates a deepening interest in content creation and an effort on the part of Shutterstock to help 3D models go mainstream by making the tool easy for marketers without photo editing expertise to use.”We want to make sure that our marketers and content creators have the latest and greatest capabilities,” says Pavlovsky. “Today 3D is focused on very highly trained professionals as well as more niche categories like industrial categories. There’s obviously some application of 3D within e-commerce—furniture companies like Ikea, et cetera, but for us we’ve always been an innovator of the space of bringing content and workflow to creators.” … [Read more...] about Shutterstock makes a $75 million bet that the future of photography won’t always involve cameras