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Is AI hurting people with non-Western names?

BiasPolicy & Ethics

Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Concrete bias outcomes in hiring and promotion.

The junior analyst who keeps pushing the conversation forward finally gets seen, even though she never had the corner office. Tools like Granola, Read.ai, Fireflies, and Avoma now routinely track talk time and participation, and firms like Amazon and Meta are folding AI-surfaced contribution into how they review people.

If Your Name Isn’t Western, AI Could Cost You The Promotion. · Forbes

As AI lowers the barriers to content creation, abuse is also becoming more feasible. Deepfakes — AI-generated images, videos and audio designed to mimic real people — pose serious risks. Already in 2022, I demonstrated how easily they can be created. This increases the risk of misinformation, identity theft and political manipulation.

Goku, A Chinese Open-Source Model, Challenges OpenAI And The U.S. · Forbes


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