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His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?

A Chrome browser tool features a movable bubble that provides information without typing a prompt, spurring a rise in AI ...
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False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...
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Split Screen: How Different Are Americans’ Facebook Feeds?

Facebook’s recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what? Split Screen attempts to answer that question with real world data collected ...
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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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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

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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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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Copyright Showdown: AI’s Next Frontier

Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. Before ...
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Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless

Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests ...
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Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook

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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Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them

A satellite image of Plainfield, New Jersey with the city boundaries outlined. In 2018, police in the city of Plainfield, N.J., started using software called PredPol to predict where crime would ...
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A Death Sentence: Native Americans Shut Out of the Nation’s Liver Transplant System

Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, according to an ...
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What It’s Like Living With Limited Access to Internet in the Black Rural South

This story was published in partnership with Capital B, a local-national nonprofit news organization that centers Black voices, audience needs and experiences, and partners with the communities it ...