When the coronavirus spread violently through the nation, disproportionately burdening Black communities, it was in some grim way the perfect reminder of why Dr. Noha Aboelata had founded her community clinic in East Oakland, California, more than a decade prior. In Alameda County, where she was located, Black folks were dying at a rate much […]
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Could Artificial Intelligence Give Black Patients More Power in Medical Research?
Her cries ring out from behind the emergency room curtain where she’s laying. “She says she can’t breathe,” someone says in the background. Then, the voices blend together. “Just bear with us one second.” “There’s a crisis.” The video has gone viral on TikTok since its upload in 2021. The words, “This is what a […]
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Facial Recognition Technology and False Arrests: Should Black People Worry?
Technological advancements such as location tracking and DNA testing over the past 20 years have contributed to law enforcement’s ability to close a criminal investigation. But their use of facial recognition software in recent years has resulted in the wrongful arrests of seven Black people — foreshadowing another potential form of racial discrimination in the […]
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AI automated discrimination. Here’s how to spot it.
This story was produced in partnership with Vox as part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. Say a computer and a human were pitted against each other in a battle for neutrality. Who do you think would win? Plenty of people would bet on the machine. But this is the wrong question. Humans created computers, and […]
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Black People Still Experience Racial Bias in the Hiring Process. Can AI Help?
While more than half of U.S. adults agree that artificial intelligence technology could help improve racial bias in the hiring process, Black Americans are more skeptical, a recent report found. About 47% of Black people who see racial bias in hiring as an issue agree that AI could improve the process, versus 64% of Asian […]