Technology
The Stories We Tell About AI
Narratives are an essential prerequisite to social change. Current narratives on AI and work only serve to increase tech companies’ power and undermine workers’ rights.
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Social Services
To Bot or Not to Bot? How AI Companions Are Reshaping Human Services and Connection
The rise of AI-powered social services will mean walking a difficult tightrope between democratizing access to resources and depleting access to social connection.
Impact Investing
Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
Technology
AI for Social Good
We need rigorous impact evaluations of AI in the social sector to ensure that it promotes social welfare.
Technology
Inclusivity in Generative AI Should Be an Attribute, Not an Add-On
With gen AI support, humanoid robots can help people with disabilities conquer long-standing barriers to inclusivity and independence in the workplace and beyond. If, that is, their design mirrors the inclusivity they are built to provide.
Health
Combining AI Breakthroughs and Better Policy to Defeat Superbugs
Superbugs may have met their match in generative AI, but to fully tackle the crisis of antimicrobial resistance, policy makers need to find new ways to help scientists and researchers overcome long-standing obstacles and revitalize a broken antibiotic market.
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Health
AI Medical Diagnostics
minoHealth AI Labs seeks to streamline diagnostic imaging to accelerate health-care treatment and improve health outcomes in Africa.
Review
Technology
The Problem With AI Is Us
AI does not herald the end of humanity—or it doesn’t have to, philosopher Shannon Vallor argues in The AI Mirror, if we decide to change its use and design.
Review
Technology
The Great Outsourcing of Government
In The Tech Coup, former politician turned AI policy analyst Marietje Schaake warns that governments have ceded too much power to Silicon Valley—to the detriment of the public good.