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Director of Special ProjectsRamsey Isler is director of special projects at CalMatters and The Markup. He focuses on strategy and tactics for optimizing the delivery of the newsroom’s work, including ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

For many students, that’s not a problem. They generally trust their institutions and see the online elements of higher education as convenient. Putting up with data collection seems like a necessary ...

News The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border By Monique ...

Before February 2020, physical proximity was one of the most important factors in determining who got a new liver. The previous system divided the country into dozens of “donation service areas,” each ...

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News With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can Laws Keep Up? States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and ...