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PRESS
The Senate doesn’t need to start from scratch on AI legislation
In an op-ed for The Hill, Janet Haven and Sorelle Friedler point to the wealth of existing expertise and research lawmakers can draw on to regulate AI.
PRESS
Could ‘Wellness Capitalism’ Put Employee Health Data at Risk?
Tamara K. Nopper and Eve Zelickson talk to Fast Company about their new report, which shows that invasive data collection in the name of wellness produces mixed results for employee health — and creates new risks.
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Data & Society Welcomes Tamara Kneese as Senior Researcher and Project Director of AIMLab
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Where Tech Meets and Misses the Goals of Therapy
For the first in a series of microinterviews, Iretiolu Akinrinade talks to therapist Marcus Brittain Fleming about the digital turn in mental health care.