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The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse
ACS disclosed its use of the tool after New York City required city agencies to list their use of automated tools in a series ...
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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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L.A.’s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores
For most of the past four years, Chantel Jones lived in a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’s skid row, hating the danger, noise, and confinement: “You feel like you’re in jail, but you’re not in jail,” ...
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False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”
In districts like Kenosha, students of color don’t need data to understand the consequences of being judged by biased systems. In 2020, the city grabbed national headlines following the police ...
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Introducing Simple Search
Have you noticed that Google search results often turn up a lot of Google content at the top? We did. We built a browser extension, Simple Search, to show you just the “traditional” search results.
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The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating
Taylor Hahn, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University, got an alert while grading a student paper this past spring for a communications course. He had uploaded the assignment to Turnitin, software used ...
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Plagiarism Detection Tools Offer a False Sense of Accuracy
When Katherine Pickering Antonova became a history professor in 2008, she got access to the plagiarism detection software tools Turnitin and SafeAssign. At first blush, she thought the technology ...
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Takeaways from Our Investigation into Wisconsin’s Racially Inequitable Dropout Algorithm
Early warning systems that use machine learning to predict student outcomes (such as dropping out, scoring well on the ACTs, or attending college) are common in K-12 and higher education. Wisconsin ...
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Landlords Are Using AI To Raise Rents — and Cities Are Starting To Push Back
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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Teachers Are Using AI to Create New Worlds, Help Students with Homework, and Teach English
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...