According to the Guardian, “Major tech corporations have launched AI “ethics” boards that not only lack diversity but sometimes include powerful people with interests that don’t align with the ethics mission. The result is what some see as a systemic failure to take AI ethics concerns seriously, despite widespread evidence that algorithms, facial recognition, machine […]

When Americans peer 30 years into the future, they see a country in decline economically, politically and on the world stage. While a narrow majority of the public (56%) say they are at least somewhat optimistic about America’s future, hope gives way to doubt when the focus turns to specific issues, says a new Pew […]

Why take a spot away from a more deserving student? Those phrases are part of the rhetorical toolkit opponents of affirmative action have long used to attack the policy. But defenders of using racial preferences in college admissions now have a new response to complaints that undeserving black and brown students are getting help: What […]

Americans express broad concerns over the fairness and effectiveness of computer programs making important decisions in people’s lives according to Pwe Research. This skepticism spans several dimensions. At a broad level, 58% of Americans feel that computer programs will always reflect some level of human bias – although 40% think these programs can be designed […]

Meritocracy may be a myth, but that means someone is keeping the fiction alive. The multimillion-dollar college admissions scandal the Justice Department announced this week gives us a sense of who — and why according to the Washington Post. The Meritocratists mindset in one of the most pervasive lenses in the world. To what extent […]

So how do you stand out and display your identity in a world that rewards the cookie-cutter and the ubiquitous approach to life? And just how original or rebellious can having a tattoo be if 38 percent of young people ages 18 to 29 have at least one tattoo according to the Pew Research Center […]

World leaders are gathering in Davos, Switzerland for the annual summit hosted by the World Economic Forum where heads of state along with business and cultural leaders discuss problems facing the globe. Many leaders are sitting this summit out as they deal with domestic disputes at home, including UK Prime Minister May, U.S. President Trump, […]

Virginia is home to America’s original contradiction – the peculiar juxtaposition of slavery and freedom. The recent “blue-ing” of Virginia has obscured a sobering political reality: Racial progress and racial bigotry can exist at the same time. Those contradictions were on display when Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam recently admitted to, and subsequently denied, being […]

Back in 2000, Diallo Shabazz was surprised to see himself on the cover of the University of Wisconsin admissions booklet. But there he was, cheering in the stands at a football game he never attended, just behind a group of white students. In 2013, Leong wrote a lengthy article in the Harvard Law Review in […]

Young entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to universities to help launch their businesses. Eric J. Barron, Pennsylvania State University Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a distinctly unconventional and often irreverent approach to problem-solving. In my day-to-day interactions with our students, I find that […]