Fighting racial bias in tech, the changing nature of the modern vice presidency, and helping refugees amid the pandemic.
| Reforming US refugee policy Refugees and their host countries are facing unique challenges with the global pandemic. Kemal Kirişci and Sam Denney write that a new administration should seize the opportunity presented by COVID-19 to build a better refugee policy, both for refugees’ benefit and for U.S. national security and strategic interests. Read more |
| This is not your grandfather’s vice presidency “Harris brings the excitement of a historic choice to the Biden ticket but in the long run Biden is betting that she can help him govern, as he helped Obama. What Biden knows is that the job of the president is too big for any one person; in the White House, as in life, a trusted partner is a great asset,” writes Elaine Kamarck. Read more |
| Listen: Fighting racial bias in technology Are racial biases baked into machine learning algorithms? Can technologies ever be fair in their execution, reducing the amount of discrimination experienced by people of color? In the first episode of a new limited-run podcast series about tech issues, Nicol Turner Lee, Rashawn Ray, and Tom Wheeler unpack questions around race issues in machine learning systems. Listen to the podcast |
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