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☆ China, Solomon Islands sign policing pact in upgrade of ties
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/3] Flags of Solomon Islands and China flutter near the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China July 11, 2023. "In just four years, the relationship between China and the Solomon Islands has developed rapidly, and we can now say that it is very fruitful," Li told Sogavare. The official added that the U.S. was committed to a strong relationship with the region and strengthening longstanding bonds with the people of Solomon Islands. Xi told Sogavare China supports more of its firms investing in the Solomon Islands and will continue to provide economic and technical assistance "without political strings attached". Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is already building a cellular network in the Solomon Islands, financed by a $66 million Chinese EXIM bank loan.

Persons: Florence Lo, Xi, Manasseh Sogavare, Premier Li Qiang, Sogavare, Solomon, Li, Washington, China's, Xi Jinping, Ethan Wang, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, Kirsty Needham, David Brunnstrom, Himani Sarkar, Robert Birsel, Mark Heinrich, Lincoln Organizations: REUTERS, Solomon Islands, Beijing, BEIJING, Premier, U.S . National Security Council, China's, Xinhua, Huawei, Pacific Games, Thomson Locations: of Solomon Islands, China, Beijing, Florence, Taiwan, Solomon Islands, Pacific, United States, Australia, U.S, Solomon, Japan, Britain, Honiara, Sydney, Washington

☆ Anti-LGBT protesters break up Pride festival in Georgia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Anti-LGBTQ protesters scuffle with police as they try to break into the site of Tbilisi Pride Fest, in Tbilisi, Georgia July 8, 2023. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze TPX IMAGES OF THE DAYJuly 8 (Reuters) - Up to 2,000 anti-LGBT protesters broke up a Gay Pride festival in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Saturday, scuffling with police and destroying props including rainbow flags and placards, though there were no reports of injuries. "The protesters managed to find... ways to enter the area of the event, but we were able to evacuate the Pride participants and organisers," Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Darakhvelidze told reporters. Georgia aspires to join the European Union but its ruling Georgian Dream Party has faced increased criticism from rights groups and the EU over its perceived drift towards authoritarianism. Georgia has passed laws against discrimination and hate crimes, but LGBT+ rights groups say there is a lack of adequate protection by law enforcement officials and homophobia remains widespread in the socially conservative South Caucasus nation.

Persons: Alexander Darakhvelidze, Nobody, Mariam Kvaratskhelia, Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, Alexander Lashkarava, Gareth Jones, Ros Russell Organizations: Tbilisi Pride Fest, REUTERS, Gay, Pride, Tbilisi Pride, Reuters, LGBT, European Union, Georgian, Party, EU, Thomson Locations: Tbilisi, Tbilisi , Georgia, Georgian, Georgia, . Georgia, South Caucasus

☆ ‘D.I. Ray’ Review: Policing One’s Own
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Steve Oram, Parminder Nagra and Maanuv Thiara Photo: HTM (DI RAY) Ltd. In his new book, “The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia,” reporter-historian Paul Moses writes about the NYPD officers who fought the extortion racket known as the Black Hand during the early part of the 20th century—and did so from a position of ethnic familiarity. Immigrants fighting immigrants, Italians battling Italians, crime fighters operating from within the community that was being preyed upon.

Persons: Steve Oram, Parminder, Maanuv, RAY, “, Paul Moses Organizations: Mafia, Immigrants

☆ For Yusef Salaam, a Landslide Just Might Be the Best Revenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | More About Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Six years ago, Mr. Salaam moved to Georgia; Harlem had become so expensive. He sees the lack of affordable housing as the area’s chief concern, and he is committed to working with developers to create more. Mr. Salaam’s ascent suggests the political appeal of lived experience over the attraction of outlier ideologies that have been cultivated at a privileged distance. Despite what he suffered at the hands of a warped system, Mr. Salaam maintains a position on policing that is comparatively moderate, calling for better and more sensitive policing, not a world without it. One of his political supporters is a former corrections officer who first encountered Mr. Salaam in a Lower Manhattan courthouse in the early stages of his long ordeal.

Persons: Salaam, Ms, Jordan, Harlemites, Brown, George Floyd, “, ”, Derrick Taitt, “ It’s, I’ll, Taitt Organizations: Calhoun School, Mr, Community Association of, East Harlem Locations: Georgia, Harlem, Lower Manhattan

☆ Election lies cost, fighting shifts to Gaza and record heat
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

State Republican parties in two battleground states are paying for their leaders loyalty to election lies. A rocket attack shifts Israel's focus to Gaza as it withdraws from the heaviest fighting in the West Bank in nearly two decades. The Biden administration is warned off policing social media by a federal judge and extreme heat hits an earthly record. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Apple, Google, Reuters, State Republican, West Bank, Thomson Locations: Gaza

☆ Mayor says home ‘rammed’ and set on fire as France detains hundreds more protesters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Jake Kwon Heather Chen Xiaofei Xu Martin Goillandeau Alex Hardie Alex Stambaugh | Jake Kwon | Heather Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

He said the mayor’s wife and two children, aged 5 and 7, fled through the back garden. While running away, the mayor’s wife hurt her shin which “appears to be broken,” according to the prosecutor. His mother, Mounia, told television station France 5 on Friday that she blamed only the officer who shot her son for his death. Hundreds detainedWhile the French government has deployed security forces and riot police across the country, the unrest continued with another night of protests. More than 700 people were detained across France overnight, according to a provisional tally from the Interior Ministry.

Persons: ”, Vincent Jeanbrun, “, ” Jeanbrun, Stéphane Hardouin, Hardouin, Nahel, Mounia, Gérald Darmanin Organizations: CNN, France, Interior Ministry, China’s Locations: Paris, Jeanbrun’s, France, Nanterre, China, Marseille

☆ Opinion | Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Radley Balko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a staggering report last month, the Department of Justice documented pervasive abuse, illegal use of force, racial bias and systemic dysfunction in the Minneapolis Police Department. City police officers engaged in brutality or made racist comments, even as a department investigator rode along in a patrol car. And after George Floyd’s death, instead of ending the policy of racial profiling, the police just buried the evidence. The Minneapolis report was shocking, but it wasn’t surprising. It doesn’t read much differently from recent Justice Department reports about the police departments in Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, Albuquerque, New Orleans, Ferguson, Mo., or any of three recent reports from various sources about Minneapolis, from 2003, 2015 and 2016.

Persons: George Floyd’s, Ferguson, “ Organizations: Department of Justice, Minneapolis Police Department . City, Department Locations: Minneapolis, Chicago , Baltimore, Cleveland, Albuquerque , New Orleans, Mo

☆ Keeping Minneapolis Safe Is About to Get Much Harder
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Jason Johnson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Whether it's the border, the economy or crime, the progressive way of governance is that no policy mistake can change—ever. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe Justice Department announced last week that the Minneapolis Police Department will operate under a federal consent decree. An investigation sparked by the 2020 killing of George Floyd determined that the city unlawfully discriminates against blacks and Native Americans in its enforcement activities. The terms of federal oversight are yet to be negotiated, but Minneapolis officials should think twice before signing on the dotted line. These agreements typically make effective policing more difficult and expensive without significantly reducing crime.

Persons: Mark Kelly, George Floyd Organizations: Getty, Mark Kelly The Justice Department, Minneapolis Police Department Locations: Minneapolis

☆ France looks a lot like the US as protests over a police killing spread, dividing the country between anti-racist and law-and-order factions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Violent protests have rocked France after the police killing of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop. The civil unrest forced French President Emmanuel Macron to postpone a trip to Germany. "Don't move or I'll put a bullet in your head," the passenger claimed the officer said, according to Sky News. A person passes by a looted shop in a Lyon street during violent protests on June 30, 2023. "Faced with these savage hordes, it's no longer enough to call for calm, it must be imposed," the statement said.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, —, JEFF PACHOUD, George Floyd, CHARLY TRIBALLEAU, Ariane Bogain, Bogain Organizations: France's, Service, Paris . Police, Sky News, Getty, BBC, Northumbria University, France Locations: France, Germany, Nanterre, Paris, Lyon, AFP, United States

The SEC raised the same concerns with Nasdaq (NDAQ.O) over a recent filing for a spot bitcoin ETF from BlackRock (BLK.N), the person said. According to Cboe's Fidelity bitcoin ETF filing, The company's platform represented roughly half of U.S. dollar-bitcoin trading in May. The recent filings for bitcoin ETFs by BlackRock and Fidelity have sent the price of bitcoin soaring more than 20% since June 15 to one-year highs. "It's not surprising to hear that the SEC is pushing back a little bit," he said of the bitcoin ETF applications. The SEC has rejected dozens of spot bitcoin ETF applications in recent years, including one from Fidelity in January 2022.

Persons: Cboe, Coinbase, Binance, it's, John Reed Stark, bitcoin, Ed Moya, It's, Carolina Mandl, John McCrank, Manya, Michelle Price, Shinjini Ganguli, Alexander Smith, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Fidelity, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, Nasdaq, WisdomTree, Coinbase, Cboe, BlackRock, ., Internet, Manya Saini, Thomson Locations: BlackRock, Nasdaq, Manhattan, New York, Bengaluru

☆ EU AI law: Top companies raise alarm over Europe's proposed rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Michelle Toh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In an open letter sent to EU lawmakers Friday, C-suite executives from companies including Siemens (SIEGY), Carrefour (CRERF), Renault (RNLSY) and Airbus (EADSF) raised “serious concerns” about the EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive AI rules. “Such regulation could lead to highly innovative companies moving their activities abroad” and investors withdrawing their capital from European AI, the group wrote. Race to regulateTech experts have increasingly called for greater regulation of AI as it becomes more widely used. The EU rules are the world’s “first ever attempt to enact” legally binding rules that apply to different areas of AI, according to the European Parliament. The Act also outlines transparency requirements for AI systems.

Persons: Yann LeCun, Hermann Hauser, “, France Valeria Mongelli, Sam Altman, ERIC, ”, Dragos, ” Brando Benifei, CNN “ Organizations: Germany CNN, EU, Siemens, Carrefour, Renault, Airbus, Meta, British, ARM, “, Bloomberg, Getty, US, Tech, SAP, Ericsson, CNN Locations: Dortmund, Germany, Europe, Strasbourg, France, United States, China, Romanian

But officially colour-blind France has long refused to acknowledge any racial factor was at play. "From that point on, unions were involved in everything that's co-managed, including the managing of human resources," he told Reuters. But these fines are rare and rights groups say police officers often end up with light sentences, fuelling a sense of impunity. A rise in lethal police shootings over the last few years has been linked to a law reform in 2017, which broadens the circumstances in which an officer can use their firearm. "It is completely vague, and it allows to shoot much more freely," said Caille of the left-wing CGT police union.

Persons: Cedric Mas, Olivier Cahn, that's, " Cahn, Christophe Castaner, Gerald Darmanin, Franck Louvrier, Nicolas Sarkozy, Darmanin, Ravina Shamdasani, Anthony Caille, –, Sebastian Roche, Michel Rose, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Rights, Twitter, Cergy University, Reuters, Socialists, United Nations, Police, CGT Police, of, Society, CGT, Thomson Locations: PARIS, Britain, France, United States, Paris, Moroccan, – France, U.S, Nice

☆ Nanterre shooting: More than 600 arrested as France sees third night of violence after 17-year-old shot dead by police
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Joshua Berlinger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The boy, Nahel, was shot dead during a traffic stop Tuesday morning in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The officer said he fired his gun out of fear that the boy would run someone over with the car, according to Nanterre prosecutor Pascal Prache. He is currently facing a formal investigation for voluntary homicide and has been placed in preliminary detention, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Thursday. This screengrab from video posted on Twitter shows the moment when police interacted with a 17-year-old teen during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. Fires were set in the Paris suburb of Montreuil early Friday morning.

Persons: France CNN —, Pascal Prache, ”, Mounia, Prache, BFMTV, Stephane Rouppert, Nael, Emmanuel Macron, Nahel, Laurent, Franck Lienard, “, ” Lienard Organizations: France CNN, France, CNN, Twitter, Interior Ministry, BFMTV, French, country’s Foreign, RTL Locations: Nanterre, France, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Roubaix, Marseille, Lille, Montreuil, Aubervilliers, ”

☆ In French banlieues, distrust of police runs deep
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Layli Foroudi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Rioters have torched cars and public transport but also targeted town halls, police stations and schools - buildings that represent the French state. Some said Nahel, who was shot dead on Tuesday, could have been any of them, or their sons, brothers or friends. Yann Bastiere, a representative of the Unite SGP police union, said the officer who shot Nahel was innocent until proven guilty. Belaidi said teachers were not replaced and hospitals lacked resources, which has led to a feeling of abandonment by the state. Reporting by Layli Foroudi; additional reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Editing by Angus MacSwanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Benjamin Belaidi, Belaidi, Emmanuel Macron, Mohamed Jakoubi, Nahel, Yann Bastiere, Bastiere, Karima, Emile Chabal, Chabal, Olivier Klein, Layli Foroudi, Elizabeth Pineau, Angus MacSwan Organizations: PARIS, Reuters, police, Unite SGP police, Edinburgh University . Investment, France Inter, Thomson Locations: Paris, Nanterre, France, Nahel, Blanc Mesnil, Clichy

☆ Opinion | Do Not Panic. It’s Just a Moral Panic.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Not to freak you out, but you may be in the middle of a moral panic. A moral panic is the pervasive belief that some great wickedness is threatening society and must be stopped. According to the panic police, if you are worried about children and social media, you are succumbing to moral panic. If you’re troubled about your employees ruining the corporate brand on TikTok, that’s right: moral panic. Trepidations about artificial intelligence, crime, teenage Juul use, policing, gender ideology, privacy, self-driving cars, feminism, A.D.H.D., racism — moral panics, all.

Persons: Nachman Ben, Yehuda, Erich Goode, ” Ben Organizations: Hebrew University Locations: Jerusalem

☆ 'Obama,' 'Trump gets impeached twice' and the other top political references in Fall Out Boy's new cover of the Billy Joel classic 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Fall Out Boy's new cover of the 1989 Billy Joel classic covers a lot of the bases the original touch. "Cambridge Analytica" (2018): The British consulting firm had been around for years, but bombshell reporting by The New York Times and The Guardian in 2018 sparked a scandal. Obama went on to defeat Republican presidential nominee John McCain en route to becoming the nation's first Black president. "Trump gets impeached twice" (2021): President Donald Trump became the first president to be impeached twice in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Video later showed that Rice, who was 12 years old, was killed within two seconds of officers arriving, The New York Times reported.

Persons: Billy Joel, Obama, Trump, —, Billy Joel's, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dwight D, Eisenhower, It's, Egypitan Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Gaddafi, Rodney King, King, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Viktor Yanukovych, Russia's, Donald Trump's, Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica, Osama bin Laden's, Illinois Sen, Barack Obama, New York Sen, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Donald Trump, acquit Trump, Roberto Schmidt, Timothy McVeigh, Alfred P, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Bland, Rice, George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, Chauvin, Kerem Yucel, Gore, George W, Bush, Al Gore, Sandra Day O'Connor, Tom Delonge Organizations: Service, Cubs, Israel, NPR, National Guard, Russia, Cambridge, The New York Times, Guardian, London Thomson Reuters, US, New York, Democratic, Affordable, Republican, AFP, Getty, Murrah Federal Building, Georgia Republican, Minneapolis Police, Civil, Hennepin County Government Center, Texas Gov, Electoral College, Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, The Washington Post, New York Times Locations: Suez, Israel, Egypt, United Kingdom, France, British, Tunisia, North Africa, California's, Crimea, Ukraine, Azov, Kerch, Moscow, Russian, London, Afghanistan, Illinois, Iowa, Washington, Oklahoma, Georgia, The, Hennepin County, Minneapolis , Minnesota, AFP, Florida

☆ Inflation hits royal finances as King Charles turns down heating to save emissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - Soaring inflation has hit the finances of the British royals, pushing up expenditure, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, as it revealed King Charles had ordered the heating in royal homes to be turned down to cut emissions. The report said 1.6 million pounds ($2 million) had been spent by the royals on the queen's funeral and related events. The British government said in May it had cost an estimated 162 million pounds overall, which includes the cost of policing and security. He said gas and heating emissions had fallen 19%, partly driven by the king having the thermostats turned down, and a 43% decrease in travel emissions. "The royals have long hidden their true cost, which we have worked out to be at least 345 million pounds.

Persons: Buckingham, King Charles, Sovereign Grant, Michael Stevens, Queen Elizabeth's, Stevens, Charles, Prince William, Graham Smith, Prince Harry, Meghan, Prince Andrew's, Michael Holden, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Sovereign, Thomson Locations: England, Wales, Duchy, Cornwall, Windsor, Royal Lodge

☆ The college student who tracks Elon Musk's jet and was banned says other flight-tracking accounts haven't received the same treatment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Sweeney said some real-time flight-tracking accounts haven't been banned, despite Twitter's policy. The college student had over 30 accounts banned after Elon Musk instituted a policy change. Since then, Sweeney has opened up a new personal account, as well as Twitter accounts that track Musk's private jet and Gov. Insider was able to identify multiple accounts on Twitter that shared real-time flight data but have not been banned. Sweeney pointed to accounts of top Musk critics like Aaron Greenspan that have been banned seemingly without any specific reason in recent months.

Persons: Jack Sweeney, Sweeney, Elon Musk, Tesla, Elon, it's, Mark Zuckerberg, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Musk, Ron DeSantis, he's, Max Verstappen, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, I'm, Aaron Greenspan, Greenspan, isn't, Sweeney doesn't Organizations: Elon, Twitter, Facebook, Wagner Group, NFL, UCF, BBC Locations: Russia

☆ Encrypted phone service 'Encrochat' shutdown leads to 6,500 arrests - Europol
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] EncroChat and Europol logos are seen in this illustration taken, June 27, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationAMSTERDAM, June 27 (Reuters) - European policing agency Europol said on Tuesday that the takedown of Encrochat, an underground company that offered criminals supposedly secure encrypted communications, led to more than 6,500 arrests and 900 million euros ($980 million) in seized assets. Police have analysed more than 115 million "criminal conversations", Europol said, helping prevent "violent attacks, attempted murders, corruption and large scale drugs transports." Europol said the company had routed encrypted communications through servers in France. "Eventually, it was possible to place a technical device to go beyond the encryption technique and obtain access to users’ correspondence," Europol said on Tuesday.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Europol, Encrochat, Toby Sterling, Christina Fincher Organizations: REUTERS, Police, British, German, Thomson Locations: AMSTERDAM, Europe, Lille, France

The North Carolina controversy arose after the state Supreme Court struck down the state’s 2022 congressional map as an illegal partisan gerrymander, replacing it with court drawn maps that favored Democrats. Reggie Weaver, at podium, speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, North Carolina, Feb. 15, 2022, about a partisan gerrymandering ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Gary D. Robertson/APAfter the state high court ruled, North Carolina Republican lawmakers appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, arguing that the state Supreme Court had exceeded its authority. After the last election, the North Carolina Supreme Court flipped its majority to Republican. With the US Supreme Court rejecting the lawmakers’ theory that state courts could not police federal election rules, lawyers for the legislature’s opponents celebrated Tuesday’s ruling.

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☆ Murders, on the Decline
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( German Lopez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And with less confidence in the justice system, some Americans resort instead to violence to resolve conflicts. Between 2014 and 2016, murders also increased after widely publicized police killings of Black men in Ferguson, Mo. This year, Memphis is among a minority of big cities where murders have increased — and Memphis is also where officers were charged in the beating and killing of Tyre Nichols in January. Crime is an incredibly complicated topic, involving personal disputes, the economy, social services, the political system and more. A few decades, much less a couple of years, is typically too little time to explain a trend definitively.

Persons: Tyre Nichols, Jeff Asher Organizations: Baltimore Banner Locations: Ferguson, Mo, Baltimore, Memphis

☆ Stephen Lawrence: New suspect named in racist murder of Black British teenager
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Caolán Magee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

London CNN —A new suspect has been named in the racist murder of Black teenager Stephen Lawrence in southeast London over 30 years ago. The statement, issued in response to a BBC investigation released Monday into the Met’s mishandling of key inquiries, added that too many “mistakes” were made in the initial investigation of the murder. Two men were sentenced to life in jail in 2012 for the murder, but “three or four other killers of Stephen Lawrence (are) at large,” according to the statement from the Met’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward. Lawrence, an 18-year-old architecture student, was fatally stabbed at a bus stop by a gang of youths in April 1993. He died in August 2021, months before the police declared the murder investigation inactive and said there were no further lines of inquiry.

Persons: Black, Stephen Lawrence, Matthew White, White, ”, Matt Ward, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen’s, “, Lawrence, Duwayne Brooks, Lawrence’s, Jeff Spicer, Ward, Sir Mark Rowley, ” Baroness Lawrence Organizations: London CNN, London’s Metropolitan Police Service, BBC, CNN, Met Locations: London

Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly being used in financial services — but they come with some serious risks around discrimination. And the problem of amplifying existing biases can be even more severe when it comes to banking and financial services. As for financial services, Manji said a lot of the backend data systems are fragmented in different languages and formats. "Individuals have little knowledge of how AI systems work and that their individual case may, in fact, be the tip of a systems-wide iceberg. Among the top worries industry insiders expressed are misinformation; racial and gender bias embedded in AI algorithms; and "hallucinations" generated by ChatGPT-like tools.

Persons: Nabil Manji, Manji, they've, we're, You've, Banks, Banking's, Rumman Chowdhury, Twitter's, Chowdhury, Angle Bush, Bush, Frost Li, Li, Niklas Guske, Guske, it's, Goldman Sachs, Kim Smouter, Smouter, ethicists Organizations: Photodisc, Getty, Deloitte, CNBC, Microsoft, Google, Black, Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo University, Apple, New York Department of Financial Services, European Network, United Nations Locations: AMSTERDAM, Worldpay, Amsterdam, Chicago, Loup, United

☆ The Politics of Class
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The class inversion in American politics — Republicans’ struggles with college graduates and Democrats’ struggles with the working class — is a running theme of this newsletter. To help make sense of it, I asked four Times Opinion writers to join me in an exchange this morning. And in the past five years, the party has lost ground with working-class voters of color. Dems need to relearn how to talk to working-class voters — to sound less condescending and scoldy. Too many Democrats radiate an aura of, If only voters understood what was good for them, they would back us.

Persons: Republicans ’, ’, Michelle Cottle, Carlos Lozada, Lydia Polgreen, Ross Douthat, they’re, ” David, Don’t Organizations: Republicans

☆ Cloning Scientist Hwang Woo-suk Gets a Second Chance. Should He? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( David Cyranoski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Science is known for rigorous self-policing by the research community, yet it can feel like scientific fraud is rampant. The story of Hwang Woo-suk, a South Korean scientist who gained notoriety for claiming to clone human embryos, provides clues. After leaving the field in disgrace, Dr. Hwang has landed in clover, and now spends his days cloning beauty show and racing camels for United Arab Emirates royalty. Dr. Hwang burst into the spotlight in 2004 when he reported success in making an embryonic human clone and deriving stem cells from it. This was the proof-of-principle for the once-hyped “therapeutic cloning” — in which patients’ own cells, from the skin or other tissue, could be used to create embryonic stem cells with their genetic signature, which could then be used to treat diseases.

Persons: Hwang Woo, suk, Hwang Organizations: South, United Arab, Netflix, YouTube Locations: South Korean, United Arab Emirates

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