Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter: I want for a student, or someone who is just plainly curious, who wants to dig into these histories and this knowledge 50, 75, 100, hell, even five years from now, to be able to access this and say, there is data, there is proof, there’s already a web of knowledge that’s out there about this.

A new paper shines a spotlight on the misuse of intersectionality in 'AI fairness'

The term ‘intersectionality‘ is one of the most misused in sociopolitical sciences thanks to decades of misinterpretation and watering down of its impact. Unfortunately, that has found its way into AI as researchers attempt to improve fairness within the tech. Their intentions may be well-meaning but the impact can be very strong, very harmful, and …