This is the first story in Capital B’s “Disconnected: Rural Black America and the Digital Divide” project, which explores the disparate effects of broadband accessibility on Black Americans in the rural South. This project is made possible by a grant from The Center for Rural Strategies and Grist. Aaron Sankin, investigative reporter for The Markup, […]
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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 […]
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Highlights from ‘Capital B Fest: Day 2’
Growing the Pipeline Tech journalist Sidney Fussell spoke with Sherrell Dorsey, founder and CEO of The Plug, about the issue of diversity in tech and what’s being done to correct it. Dorsey talked about what’s at the heart of complicated “pipeline” issues. “When we talk about pipelines, it’s not for lack of the support of […]
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Meet the Black Women Behind the New Digital Startups Aimed at Reducing Health Disparities
The trip from Sacramento to Oakland, California, is an hour and a half on a good day. Maybe three when traffic jams the highway. But it’s a trip some of Dr. Joy Cooper’s patients were willing to take to see a provider who looked like them. “Otherwise,” she said, “they would not see a Black […]