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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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The final two rights are broader guidelines for society: People should have equal access to mental-augmentation technologies, and the technology should be free from algorithmic bias that makes the technology work better for certain groups. For example, she asks, “What does it mean to have psychic continuity?” The entrepreneur.

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

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As a graduate student, she made waves with a 2016 TED talk about algorithmic bias that has received more than 1.6 She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. million views to date.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. They’re now adopting the guidelines in Torrance based on the guidelines of the state. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now.

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