Tag: bias
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The nightmare conflict between external perceptions of value and feeling needed
I recently had a most illuminating conversation on the topic of diversity. The conversation involved a very common work problem – the employee in question had been feeling (and objectively was) overburdened for quite some time. For a while, they tried to bear this burden in silence; finally, they gathered courage to speak up when…
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How does Bias work?
From technology to human resources, bias is a hot topic; it creeps into judicial processes, into innovation, into employment and diversity issues. Above all, bias can be very pervasive and hard to shift, because it can be very much entrenched into how we see things, until it’s literally hard to impossible to see without it.For…
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Attack of the Machines – Fear, Prejudice and Progress
Introduction Whether it was an black and white film such as Metropolis, a mid- or late twentieth century classic such as the Terminator films, Westworld (1973) and Death Machine (1994) or a modern thriller or horror such as RoboGeisha (2009), we have all seen it – the humanity effectively destroying itself through inventing technology, and that…