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Focusing on technological solutions to climate change feels like an attempt to dodge the harder political obstacles. https://t.co/y4v5euRGE8 — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] New Zealand has Asia-Pacific’s greenest future. It tops the climate policy pillar based on the scale of its ambitions to decarbonize and build a sustainable agricultural sector. Learn more: https://t.co/h7daDtW6VZ. (With @Citrix @MorganStanley @Salesforce) https://t.co/Ga0FSly0UQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Beyond potentially ending the pandemic, the vaccine breakthrough is showing how messenger RNA may offer a new approach to building drugs. https://t.co/XqkiAAp2xb — PolitiTweet.org

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Attackers are exploiting the same types of software vulnerabilities over and over again, because companies often miss the forest for the trees. https://t.co/fQ05kM5yCp — PolitiTweet.org

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Chinese hackers targeting Microsoft Exchange servers were joined by a feeding frenzy of other adversaries. https://t.co/0tmd2tHs93 — PolitiTweet.org

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Children can learn this way. Artificial intelligence should be able too. https://t.co/FkbolCyEDz — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, that asbestos. https://t.co/HOaYEhelrG — PolitiTweet.org

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In 2001, we picked our first annual set of 10 breakthrough technologies. Here’s what their fates tell us about progress over the last two decades. https://t.co/Io7CG9nXd0 — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] “We do not see our technology adoption as ‘transformation’ so much as it a continuous journey.” –@Mastercard’s Gautam Aggarwal on the mindset that helped the company operate normally during the pandemic. (With @VMware) https://t.co/ngEY5btyzK — PolitiTweet.org

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Learn how to make artificial intelligence work for your business. Register for EmTech Digital, a virtual conference entirely focused on the most transformative innovation of our time. Click this link to receive a discount on your ticket price: https://t.co/RS0rDIIUq7 https://t.co/bPn5HNXllP — PolitiTweet.org

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Vaccinated Americans returning to small-group gatherings without masks is a big deal. But there are still at least three questions the new guidance from the CDC doesn’t answer about what's safe and what's fair. https://t.co/64Wn0MeYIF — PolitiTweet.org

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Americans returning to small-group gatherings without masks is a big deal. But there are still at least three questions the new guidance from the CDC doesn’t answer about what's safe and what's fair. https://t.co/rvACEUbSfP — PolitiTweet.org

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Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think. https://t.co/JE0WGqhO8p — PolitiTweet.org

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Our 2021 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies is a glimpse into our collective future. https://t.co/PywcejBLog — PolitiTweet.org

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“We’ll never have true AI without first understanding the brain” - tech entrepreneur and neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins https://t.co/rJF3P60J3h — PolitiTweet.org

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[SPONSORED] Cloud computing provides rich new opportunities for spectator experiences during major sporting events by stitching together digital marketing, commerce, viewing, and gaming solutions. (With @Alibaba_Cloud) https://t.co/4PAOu6YQJf — PolitiTweet.org

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When the most advanced hackers succeed in breaking in to iPhone's famous walled garden, something strange happens. https://t.co/crknN0I4OL — PolitiTweet.org

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Our 2021 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies is a glimpse into our collective future. https://t.co/D9Bk307kdW — PolitiTweet.org

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Already, a shift in the dirt about the size of the tip of a pencil can be spotted from more than 21,000 kilometers above landslide-prone regions in China. That's why we named hyper-accurate positioning to our annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. https://t.co/1KoXWM8hSi — PolitiTweet.org

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Not yet a subscriber? For $50 per year, you’ll get unlimited access to our journalism and our award-nominated newsletter on artificial intelligence, The Algorithm. Your support also helps sustain our mission-driven journalism. https://t.co/JmdZJSohAO — PolitiTweet.org

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This thread was adapted from @TateRyMo’s subscriber exclusive about how AI algorithms rank our attractiveness—and why that’s a problem. https://t.co/PbkRyt5rTz — PolitiTweet.org

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@TateRyMo asked social media platforms whether beauty scoring is part of their recommendation algorithms. Instagram and Facebook have denied using such algorithms. TikTok and Snapchat declined to comment on the record. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Eurocentric bias in the AI reflects the bias of the humans who scored the photos used to train the system, codifying and amplifying it. https://t.co/PbkRyt5rTz — PolitiTweet.org

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Another beauty scoring algorithm, Face++, consistently ranked darker-skinned women as less attractive than white women. Faces with European-like features scored higher than those with other features, regardless of how dark their skin was, a researcher found. — PolitiTweet.org

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The proprietary nature of many of these systems means it's impossible to get insight into how they really work, how much they’re being used, or how they affect users. Trust us, we tried. — PolitiTweet.org

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These beauty scoring tools, readily available for purchase online, use face analysis and computer vision to evaluate things like symmetry, eye size, and nose shape to sort through and rank millions of pieces of visual content and surface the most attractive people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Companies working on such technologies are darlings of venture capital, and such algorithms are used in everything from online cosmetic sales to dating apps. — PolitiTweet.org

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But these algorithms aren’t just a mechanism for selling beauty serums. There's a growing industry of facial analysis tools driven by AI, each claiming to parse an image for characteristics such as emotions, age, or attractiveness. — PolitiTweet.org

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By uploading a photo of herself into one of these algorithms, @TateRyMo quickly received a list of “predicted flaws” on her face. Then, of course, she got a list of services and products that could fix her flaws. — PolitiTweet.org

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Reporter @TateRyMo dove into the strange world of beauty scoring algorithms that look at images of your face to tell you how beautiful you are—or aren’t—and what you can do about it. What she found was inaccuracies, ageism, and racism. 👇 https://t.co/RuympgTCtU — PolitiTweet.org