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Racism Officially Becomes a Public Health Crisis in an Important US City

The city council decided that racism is now officially recognized as a public health crisis in Oakland (California). As a result, the city needs to decide how it can achieve equity regarding laws, hiring, policy making, and all aspects of…

June 20, 2022 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The AI Built for Giving Ethical Advice Releases Potentially Racist Claim

People often like to take advice from one another, so why wouldn’t they take it from a robot as well? This seems to be what was in the minds of those scientists from the Allen Institute of AI who came…

November 1, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Can Climate Change Be Racist? Greenpeace Ad Raises the Problem

Since there’s a suspicion these days for anyone and anything to be racist, why wouldn’t climate change also qualify? The advocacy group known as Greenpeace raises the problem about climate change possibly being racist, according to The Hill. Disasters related…

October 2, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0