Tag: racism
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Teaching AI to “Do No Harm”
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Is There an Artificial Intelligence in the House? For SIAM News: Medical care routinely involves life-or-death decisions, the allocation of expensive or rare resources, and ongoing management of real…
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When physicists go bad
My latest comic with Maki Naro addresses the instances where certain physicists abandon scientific ethics to promote dubious causes: eugenics, climate change denial, and so forth. Since this issue is a bit fraught, I’ve included notes and references at the end of this post. Journalism, y’know? [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most…
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Thinking scientists are smarter than other people hurts us
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] I’ve started contributing to the Forbes Science page again! This is my second new contribution; stay tuned for plenty more. (And if I can be shameless: Forbes pays according…
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The white scientist versus the African teenager
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A Rationalist’s Irrationality Why is Richard Dawkins such a jerk? For Slate: Richard Dawkins is not your garden-variety Internet troll. He’s a retired professor at Oxford University and the…
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