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September 17, 2021
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AI Can Help Address Inequity—If Companies Earn Users' Trust

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Kannan Srinivasan, Param Singh and Nitin Mehta

While companies may spend a lot of time testing models before launch, many spend too little time considering how they will work in the wild. In particular, they fail to fully consider how rates of adoption can warp developers’ intent. For instance, Airbnb launched a... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithmic Bias; Technological Innovation; Perception; Diversity; Equality and Inequality; Trust; AI and Machine Learning

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The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

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How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

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Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

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Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

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