Friday, September 29, 2023

Grace Browne

AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’

It has been said that algorithms are “opinions embedded in code.” Few people understand the implications of that better than Abeba Birhane. Born and raised in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Birhane moved to Ireland to study: first psychology, then philosophy, then...

Why Suicide Rates Are Dropping Around the World

In post-World War II Britain, national records began to reveal a concerning trend. Deaths by suicide were rising in the war-battered nation, an increase that would continue from the end of the war into the early 1960s. Then, in...

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