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Sam Altman hopes that the tour will be able to deter the evil threat of Artificial Intelligence
A student at Oxford University, Gideon Futerman, has said he met with Steve Stewart, CEO of AI startup OpenAI, to protest the startup’s approach to safety that includes simultaneously developing the capabilities of AI systems along with guardrails. “If you can make those dramatically cheaper, dramatically more accessible, that does…more to help poor people than…
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The Unsettling Truth about Trump’s First Great Victory is an opinion
Donald Trump’s election victory was the result of appealing to white Americans’ racist and xenophobic attitudes, an analysis by Oxford University showed. Prior Republican candidates had high levels of racial resentment and bigotry, but Trump supporters were less racist, it said. This group is shrinking parts of the electorate, it added. Trump won the election…
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Management Training is also needed for the Algorithms
Algorithmic management is a way of improving organizational performance by using data to improve employees’ efficiency and well-being, Oxford University professor Aislinn Kelly-Lyth said. “Algorithms can reduce bias in hiring, evaluation, and promotion, or improve employee well-being by detecting needs for training or support,” she added. They can also protect employees from privacy harms, Kelly-Lyth…
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Daily briefings: The Great Depression shaped people.
Scientists at Oxford University and Harvard University claim to have built the world’s first computer-based supercomputer. The supercomputer is capable of analysing terabytes of data a day, the equivalent of around 1024 gigabytes of data a year by 2030, according to researchers. The researchers said it could be used to help map areas of the…