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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Which path wins out will depend on the datasets and designs of the emerging technologies as well as whether or not robust regulations are put in place to guide the scientists at the helm. 9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. Emerging Technologies: Potential and Risks Technological innovations are often lauded as a panacea for global health challenges.

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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

Advances in DNA sequencing technology are leading to a new understanding of cancer and new ways of diagnosing and treating it that are saving lives. It has led to improved treatments and therapies for rare diseases, which affect 30 million people in the United States and more than 300 to 400 million worldwide.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.

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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

Technology has changed all that. In a sense, the technology has given [us] the ability to communicate and have contact with each other, which is great and creates new possibilities but also new dangers. It means I recognize that the divine in me is the same divine in you and that we are children of God. Everybody counts.

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Some Nonprofit Workers Still In Poverty, Struggling Financially

The NonProfit Times

They can’t afford the basics: housing, childcare, food, transportation, healthcare, technology and taxes. Nonprofit workers in the social services sector take care of our most vulnerable citizens, including seniors and children. ALICE households include those employed by nonprofits and otherwise.

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Changemakers, Disruptors, and Protectors of Our Earth: Young Women and Girls of the Global Majority Leading Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the United Nations Development Programme, women and children are 14 times more likely to die during a disaster compared to men. 13 A report by Save the Children highlights this relationship between climate change and the rise in child marriage rates. million girls from completing their education each year.”