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I think it’s more and more important to at least clarify what our own bias leans towards, and just express it … I ’d rather know what someone biases to rather than try to interpret through their actions.

[I] do understand the concern, we have folks that are at various points in the political spectrum and they don’t feel comfortable today bringing up certain issues or their viewpoints on certain issues. And I don’t believe that is acceptable.

The most important thing that we can do is we look at the incentives that we’re building into our product, because they do express a point of view of what we want people to do—and I don’t think they are correct anymore.

We often turn to policy to fix a lot of these issues, but I think that is only treating surface-level symptoms that we are seeing.

The net of this is we need to do a much better job at explaining how our algorithms work. Ideally opening them up so that people can actually see how they work, we just need to make sure that we’re pushing ourselves to explain exactly how these things work. How we’re making decisions. Where we need to make decisions as humans versus where the algorithms make decisions based on behaviors and signals.

Pay attention to who you allow to have your children’s identifying information, why does the doctor need that? Why does the school need that?

Many of the schools we work with have incubators on campus, we sponsor case competitions, give students access to Watson’s app development, and it’s all about building skills. It’s all about allowing these students to figure out, ‘ How do we take it to the next step ? ’.

We thank Jack Dorsey for acknowledging the serious problem of political misinformation and for not-so-subtly rebuking Facebooks reckless political ad policy. Facebooks decision to accept money for political ads that spread falsehoods puts American Muslims, immigrants and other vulnerable communities in danger.

Madihha Ahussain

I didn’t want to work for a company that I can’t trust, that makes me feel like my values of gender equality are being compromised, i was definitely very excited to work at Google.

My first reaction was to immediately feel angry and insulted, we... by Heidi Lamar

My first reaction was to immediately feel angry and insulted, we deserve to make livable wages.

It feels really scary to speak up, but I do it for the women I work with and the women who are still at Google.

I found the environment and the educators and everyone I met ther... by Heidi Lamar

I found the environment and the educators and everyone I met there to be really inspiring.

It was very, very sad to leave. by Heidi Lamar

It was very, very sad to leave.

It’s a matter, really, of whether we’re going to step up and be leaders and go lead the way or are we going to let these other nations go on their own?

We want to give out a warning to young people: think about what you’re doing, don’t ever share sex videos. It can have consequences for the victims and also for those distributing. We really hope that it is an eye opener for young people, that they should be careful in the digital world about what you should do.

Flemming Kjaerside

Every person I listen to — he’s speaking it, she’s speaking it. T... by Aaron Schlossberg

Every person I listen to — he’s speaking it, she’s speaking it. This is America.

Aaron Schlossberg

And so that’s why we’re focusing, in this chapter, on flexibility... by Aaron Schildkrout

And so that’s why we’re focusing, in this chapter, on flexibility.

Aaron Schildkrout

So as some of you may have noticed, our page has been pretty helpful in connecting us with our community, we’ve found though, that we are still struggling to really reach the younger folk out there.

I was absolutely scared because I thought it was coming at me. I thought I was going to die to be honest.

The list of things that I couldn’t do, or shouldn’t do, was much longer than the things that I was allowed to do, so there was a lot of conflict inside me, because at home my parents were constantly telling me that I should dream big, and shoot for the stars. And they put all these incredible role models in front of me like Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto and I was supposed to be like them. But the minute I stepped out of my home, I was told the exact opposite. That I was dreaming too big, that if I wouldn’t stop looking at the sky I would stumble and fall on my face.