AI and You Europod

Have you already heard about AI-powered hiring practices?
Is this common practice reducing inequality, or reinforcing discrimination? 
Some tech experts argue that AI can also be an opportunity to overcome all forms of bias, even those within humankind. 
Sources:
Racist technology in action: White only soap dispensers : Racism and technology centre
Amazon ditched AI recruiting tool that favored men for technical jobs : The Guardian
Meet Tengai, the job interview robot who won't judge you : BBC  
Solans, D., Beretta, A., Portela, M., Castillo, C. & Monreale, A. Human Response to an AI-Based Decision Support System: A User Study on the Effects of Accuracy and Bias.
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Temnit Gebru : Wired 
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI : Rolling Stone


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AI has the potential to make certain diagnoses earlier and more accurately than human beings. However, some AI deployments in healthcare could harm us more than help us. 
For what concerns mental health care, the use of AI has revealed that there are still “significant gaps” in our ability to apply these models for this purpose. Nonetheless, people are already turning to AI chatbots for mental health support.
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Life expectancy at birth, total (years) : The World Bank
MB-SupCon: Microbiome-based Predictive Models via Supervised Contrastive Learning : Journal of Molecular Biology
Is B.M.I. a Scam? : The New york Times
The Role of AI in Drug Discovery: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies : The National Library of Medicine 
Using artificial intelligence to collect data on children’s eye diseases at the Central Eye Hospital : DIVE
AI Assisted Infant Eye Disease Screening: Early Detection is of Crucial Importance : Huawei
Lawsuits take aim at use of AI tool by health insurance companies to process claims : CBS News
Why AI is the new frontier in the battle to treat the male mental health crisis : The Telegraph
Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment : National Institute of Mental Health
A new frontier in mental health: Technology : US health News
Challenges for Artificial Intelligence in Recognizing Mental Disorders : National Library of Medicine
Racial Bias in Health Care Artificial Intelligence : NIHCM Foundation
Experts call for more diversity to combat bias in artificial intelligence : CNN News


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How AI can impact education? In some places like China, Artificial Intelligence already plays a role in teaching, grading and planning lessons for students. However, while navigating through AI, it is important to learn to discern what is trustworthy and what is not.
Sources 
Education in the age of artificial intelligence : The UNESCO Courier
The Evolution of Education: How AI is Reshaping Grading : The Princeton Review
Real teacher salaries in Europe are down. Which countries pay the highest and lowest wages? : Euronews.next
DALL-E: the Creative Process and the Art of Prompting : USC Career Centre
Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable? : AP News
The rise of AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’ : The Washington Post


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With the development in technology and implementation of Artificial Intelligence all over different sectors, some of us are left with the fear that our jobs will be replaced by technology. Is that the case? Maybe. But certain skills like critical thinking, interpersonal skills and empathy, are out of AI’s reach.
Sources: 
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot : The Washington Post
Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work : Staff Discussion Notes No. 2024/001 ; International Monetory Fund
OECD Employment Outlook : OECDiLibrary


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The technologies and algorithms developed through artificial intelligence are already being used in various ways in our digital social interactions (dating apps, fall detection apps, AI virtual assistants, etc.). 
What impact is AI having on our social lives today? What impact could it have in the future? 
Sources:
Increasing Nature Connection in Children: A Mini Review of Interventions. Frontiers in Psychology
Usage des écrans par les enfants : un groupe d’experts pour faire des propositions à Emmanuel Macron : Le Monde
China proposes to limit children’s smartphone time to a maximum of 2 hours a day: AP News
WHO declares loneliness a ‘global public health concern’: The Guardian
Fall detection with deep learning: Viso.ai
AI robot, ElliQ, helps seniors fight loneliness: Associated Press
Much more than a chatbot: China’s Xiaoice mixes AI with emotions and wins over millions of fans: Microsoft Stories Asia
Dating Statistics And Facts In 2024: Forbes Health
SciMatch
How Rizz Assistants and AI Matchmakers Are Transforming Dating: Time
Loneliness, insomnia linked to work with AI systems: Pok Man Tang, PhD, American Psychological Association.
AI chatbots cannot replace human interactions in the pursuit of more inclusive mental healthcare: Julia E.H. Brown, Jodi Halpern
The Method Behind Our Matching: Tinder Newsroom

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It was in the 1950s, that the term “Artificial Intelligence” was first coined at a research conference, and ever since then, till today, humans have been obsessed with one question - Will AI surpass humans? This episode takes you through the origin and development of AI from the early 1950s to the present.
The series is produced by Europod in the framework of the WePod project, co-funded by the European Commission. In partnership with AFP, Chora Media and Podium Podcasts.
Hosted by - Madeleina Kay.
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