Between 1993 and 2013 America’s crime rate fell from around 52 crimes per 1,000 people to 23. At the same time, largely because of America’s penchant for handing out long sentences, the number of people over 55 in state prisons rose from 26,300 to 131,500, and their share of the total more than tripled. According to the Osborne Association…
The bill earned diverse support from conservative groups – like the Charles Koch Institute and the Faith and Freedom Coalition – as well as progressive leaders like commentator Van Jones and his Dream Corps’ #cut50 initiative. But the ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund opposed the bill, arguing it doesn’t go far enough.
Ask your resident experts, Why does AI work? Readily, they’ll explain How it works, methods emptying in a mesmerizing jargonfall of gradient descent. But why? Why will an expensive and inscrutable machine create the knowledge I need to solve my problem? A glossary of technical terms, an architectural drawing, or a binder full of credentials will do little to insulate you from the fallout if you can’t stand up and explain Why.
Projects in Virginia, Kansas and Nevada are among those the Trump administration named Wednesday for a new program to sharply expand how drones can be used across the United States, seeking to accelerate growth in a booming sector with broad economic potential but…
The White House on Thursday plans to convene executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel and 34 other major U.S. companies as it seeks to supercharge the deployment of powerful robots, algorithms and the broader field of artificial intelligence.
Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that he’s signed an executive order to give convicted felons on parole the right to vote. Appealing to his left flank, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that…
Flippy, a burger-flipping robot, has begun work at a restaurant in Pasadena, Los Angeles.
It is the first of dozens of locations for the system, which is destined to replace human fast-food workers.
“The fact is that AI can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this point,” Pearson said. “So we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up.
The Mayor of New York City has announced a plan to locate four jails in each borough except Staten Island. Last March he announced plans to close Rikers Island, but said at the time that it would take 10 years to do so. Will this announcement of the fourth jail site in the Bronx speed up that timeline? Here’s what the Mayor said.
The vendors we use to assist Prisoners upon release are being questioned as to how well they are helping assist with a healthy return to society. Serious questions are being raised about the financial incentives associated with private and public partnerships in supporting the prison industrial complex. In this story JPay is investigated as to whether it’s debit card management system is adequately supporting prisoners upon re-entry to society. A lawsuit has been filed against them alleging that prisoners are forced into accepting their high-fee JPay debit cards to access their own money. Some have even been denied access.
