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Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits
'Companies in the US are increasingly turning to AI to make faster and more efficient workplace decisions, often under the guise of objectivity.' 'Companies in the US are increasingly turning to AI to make faster and more efficient workplace decisions, often under the guise of objectivity.' Will AI give you the job? F or the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like Paypal, Microsoft and Netflix, only to find her résumé disappear into a black hole. A product manager with nearly 20 years of experience, Kistler believes she was qualified for every role, yet she never received a single interview.
Three Books that Will Transport You
The poem is about how our most worthwhile pursuits--things like art, love, and beauty--often seem to demand a measure of toil. Or, as a woman in the poem wistfully puts it, how "we must labour to be beautiful." The speaker reflects that "I strove / To love you in the old high way of love." He sounds tired from the effort. Then I read my colleague Hanif Abdurraqib's gorgeous essay about our collective longing for inconvenience, in which he discusses a friend who "wants to fall in love," meaning without using a dating app.
'Your Excel Skills Suck': The Power Users Turning Spreadsheets Into a Spectator Sport
Data and finance professionals are competing in Excel obstacle courses--amassing huge followings and keeping the Microsoft program relevant. For many people, Microsoft Excel is to be avoided at all costs. Maybe you lied about being "proficient" with the spreadsheet program to pad out your résumé and have lived in fear of being found out ever since. Or it could be that you do have a grasp on a few basic formulas but find the interface too labyrinthine to truly master. Still, like it or not, Excel remains an integral part of businesses, with Microsoft claiming "hundreds of millions" of users worldwide.
What to Know About the Pentagon's Crackdown on Universities' Foreign Research Ties
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There's a Very Simple Reason Why You Love the Slate Truck
The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it's why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup. Tisha Johnson is a rare anomaly in the car world: a design leader for an automaker who is not a man. In a resolutely testosterone-fueled industry where, traditionally, women have seemingly been given positions of authority in design labs as long as they focus on interiors, colors, or material selections, very few have been afforded free rein on the most important visual element of the car, the exterior, let alone promoted to run the entire aesthetic show. As head of design at Slate, this gender-specific fact might be why the world has fallen in love with the Jeff Bezos-backed truck . Casual observers might put the Slate EV's popularity down to its low price. Starting at $24,950, the Slate arriving later this year won't just be the cheapest EV on the US market; it will also be the cheapest pickup truck of any power flavor.
Pump up the summer jams with the perfect poolside radio station
Poolsuite brings endless-summer vibes to your browser with upbeat music and a playful throwback look. Poolsuite is the perfect internet radio station for when you want to put on some sunglasses, pull up a beach chair, grab a cold one, and refuse to admit summer will ever end. The site features a sun-soaked mix of retro graphics, palm trees, poolside clips, and breezy music. The whole thing feels like an '80s vacation ad crossed with a swanky beach bar DJ. Since it's a curated internet radio station, you don't need to build playlists or dig through albums yourself.
20 Years After Virginia Tech, We Can Do More to Keep Students Safe
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AI hallucinated case law in insurance company's filings in L.A. County house fire dispute
Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Attorneys representing State Farm said they discovered "nonexistent case citations which appear to have been AI hallucinations" across a recent batch of motions.
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces
The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is "private and secure"--but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed. When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: "Your reverse image search is private and secure." New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image files, including photographs of people's faces, publicly exposed . And a second misconfiguration publicly exposed people's email addresses and phone numbers. Overall, according to findings from independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, the exposed ClarityCheck database contained roughly 450 GB of images, including what appeared to be profile images, screenshots, and other photographs of adults, teenagers, and children.
The Mark of the Machine
Few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic is making it even easier to determine if text was generated by Claude. Last week, announced an unexpected policy change: text created with Claude, the company's large language model, would now contain an invisible watermark. If a person were to copy and paste a chatbot-crafted passage into a separate document, an A.I. detector would be able to determine the likelihood that it had been processed by Claude. A.I.-detection systems aren't new, of course; programs such as Pangram and Turnitin have become entrenched in academic and publishing practices.