This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 2nd)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problem Kate Crawford The New York Times "Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters--from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included. Otherwise, we risk constructing machine intelligence that mirrors a narrow and privileged vision of society, with its old, familiar biases and stereotypes." ROBOTICS: How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race Kim Bhasin and Patrick Clark Bloomberg "For the new breed of robot makers, the potential market is wide open. Logistics companies that run their own warehouses started designing automatons while ambitious engineers saw the hole Bezos blew in the market and jumped in...As promising as all this technology may be, robots aren't going to do away with human-run warehouses entirely--not yet, anyway."