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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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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

When we build AI, we must ask: Who benefits from this technology? It calls for AI that is designed explicitly to dismantle systemic inequities and address the social ills caused by historical and present-day injustices. For those impacted by AIcommunities, workers, everyday peoplesuch policies serve as essential protective barriers.

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DEI Under Attack: A Conversation with Paulette Granberry Russell

NonProfit Quarterly

Granberry Russell not only elucidates the potential harm these measures can inflict on higher education but also calls out what she characterizes as a dangerous stifling and resulting silence among leaders in higher education whose responsibilities, she argues, include speaking out against anti-DEI efforts and making public the harm they carry.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Those who faced barriers in the offline world along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity or ability would find new opportunities. The digital economy thus has not only failed to deliver, but has exploited racial/ethnic, gender, and geopolitical hierarchies in the process. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. The questionnaire was shared with all registered candidates for statewide offices with particular relevance for nonprofits, including both federal and state-level races.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Despite these risk disparities, there is a significant underrepresentation of individuals from these communities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—fields that design and use tools to understand, predict, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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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.