Nicole's Media Law Blog

  The Frontline documentary In the Age of AI was interesting and scary. I found it frightening because as a woman, our jobs could be at risk from AI. Women hold more of the jobs that are at the highest risk of automation because women are overrepresented in some of these occupations, like a cashier or a fast food worker, and also in large numbers in clerical jobs in offices, HR departments, payroll, and finance. I also found it important that AI can cause inequality because it's a form of automation and t he machines will be in every sector of the economy.   One thing that affects all of us is the use of AI in social media. Facebook, Google and Amazon have user preferences and can target an advertisement to users. So AI is a set of tools that helps to maximize an objective function which is to make more money. AI does so by using algorithms and these algorithms reach into our work and our daily lives. They're trying to personalize things to us. So AI seems to a great be...

  Source: https://executivetrainingdubai.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/gprepostreposternotetag-live-your-quotes-via-gprepostapp-live-your-quotesive-learned-that-two-people-can-look-at-the-exact-same-thing-see-something-totally-different-we-do/ Whether it’s politics, sports, social media, or product reviews, we all like being right. Most people assume they make decisions based on the facts, but psychology tells us that’s not quite the case. One of the biggest influences on how we think is confirmation bias.  Confirmation bias is the tendency for us to search for, interpret, remember, and believe information that supports our existing beliefs while ignoring information that challenges them. Rather than objectively evaluating all the evidence, our brains naturally favor information that we already think is true.   According to the American Psychological Association , confirmation bias influences how people gather information and make decisions, often without conscious awaren...