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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 22, 2019

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Work

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employment, Featured, Self-employment, women}

Does Automation Target Women’s Jobs?

_{The assumption that women need special protection from robots underestimates their creativity and versatility} _{Denyse O'Leary

April 22, 2019

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Work}

A number of studies have come to the conclusion that automation will hit women harder than men. Some proposed fixes assume that women who lose repetitive jobs to robots would be happier as administrators or dependents. That’s not clear.

Did AI teach itself to “not like” women?

_{No, the program did not teach itself anything. But the situation taught the company something important about what we can safely automate.} _{Mind Matters

October 11, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Back in 2014, it was a “holy grail” machine learning program, developed in Scotland, that would sift through online resumes, using a one-to-five star rating system and cull the top five of 100, saving time and money. Within a year, a problem surfaced: It was “not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way.”