prejudice
Imagine a world in which all the babies born each day were randomly redistributed among the biological parents. The infant assigned to any given set of parents could be white, […]
AI is leaving human needs and democracy behind in its race to accomplish its current profit-generating goals.
Is race a trivial quality of humans, or of deep social importance? Who gets to decide whether race exists or not?
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A study suggests people act aggressively on their prejudices when they have plausible deniability.
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Turns out no one is immune to being prejudiced. New research suggests that people of higher and lower cognitive ability are equally inclined, but direct their prejudice towards different social groups.