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Safiya Noble Is Working to Make AI Less Racist and Sexist

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As AI dominates headlines and unfurls like wildfire across the Internet, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble stands ready to remind everyone that machines are not better than humans — and never will be.  Noble is a tech justice advocate, an esteemed scholar and a professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at UCLA. Her work focuses on the intersection of technology and human rights as she tries to protect vulnerable communities from the effects of AI and the ways it can exacerbate inequities like racism and sexism. Read More...

Thch Qung c, The Burning Monk Who Changed The World

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The Spark That Helped Topple A Government Wikimedia CommonsThe dead body of President Diem lies in the back of a carrier. Saigon, South Vietnam. 1963. After the “Burning Monk” immolation, President Diem’s days were numbered. Vietnamese nationalists led by General Duong Van Minh started plotting to overthrow him, and the United States backed them up. General Minh met with CIA operatives who encouraged him and promised they wouldn’t get in his way. Read More...

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