Notes from the field
On tech innovation in the social sector, AI and bias, and the connections between them.
These posts are translated from Hebrew. More of my writing, on empathy in organizations, technology and social change, is available on the Hebrew blog.
Getting Everyone into the Room
What if we invited the people who need technology most to design it with us, right from the start? Not as "end users," and not as people we'll "check in with along the way," but as true partners.…
When AI's Sentence Completions Reveal Our Biases
Imagine you write a simple sentence: "The child is ____" and ask an AI language model to complete it. You'll usually get words like "happy," "smart" or "healthy." But what happens if the sentence to…
AI Bias, or: When the Algorithm Looks at Us
When we think about artificial intelligence, or algorithms in general, it's easy to picture a cold, logical, completely objective computer. After all, a machine doesn't wake up in a bad mood or with…
Technology to End Domestic Violence
Researchers and sociologists call the era we're living in the Fourth Industrial Revolution . It goes by many names: the data revolution, Big Data , the digitization and robotics revolution, the…