Reading List: Sept. 2021 ICYMI: Dr. Ming published her latest episode "I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg" on Socos.org earlier this week. Thanks for reading! If you're looking for more, here’s what we read this month...
Reading List: One GPU, One Vote The global AI agenda: Promise, reality, and a future of data sharing [https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/26/950287/the-global-ai-agenda-promise-reality-and-a-future-of-data-sharing/] , MIT Technology Review (2020) I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China. We can’t win the technology wars without the federal government’s help. [https:
Reading List: The Index What We're Reading Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men [https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2014/03/06/1321202111.full.pdf], PNAS, 2014 Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector [https://www.nber.org/chapters/c14103] [https://www.nber.org/chapters/c14103], NBER, 2020
Reading List: Joe vs Jose What We're Reading Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups [https://www.pnas.org/content/116/41/20556], PNAS, 2019 Using Causal Reasoning To Guide Algorithms Toward a Fairer World [https://ai.shorensteincenter.org/ideas/2019/4/3/using-causal-reasoning-to-guide-algorithms-toward-a-fairer-world] , The Ethical Machine, 2020 Individual differences in trust evaluations
Reading List: "Represent!" A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0815-z], Nature, 2020 Evidence of bias against girls and women in contexts that emphasize intellectual ability [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-62311-015], American Psychologist, 2018 Active learning narrows achievement gaps for
Reading list: Covid-19 We Can Safely Restart the Economy in June. Here’s How. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html], New York Times (2020) Keeping Business Alive: The Government as Buyer of Last Resort [http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/coronavirus.pdf], Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman (2020) Substantial undocumented infection
Reading List: Sexyface Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100619832930], Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2019) Uncertainty in learning, choice, and visual fixation [https://www.pnas.org/content/117/6/3291.abstract?etoc], PNAS (2019) Reinforcement-learning AIs are vulnerable to