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Is Democracy Threatened by Chatbots?

Chatbots are becoming more sophisticated both in their ability to process language and gauge emotion. As social media increasingly influences our news and beliefs, this could be a big problem.

By Emily Ludolf | January 31, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Government, Journalism, Knowledge, Politics, Psychology, Security, Society | AI, Bias, Chatbots, Customer Service, Cyberbullying, Democracy, Elections, Fake News, Filter Bubble, Influence, Machine Learning, Microsoft, Natural Language Processing, News, NLP, Opinion, Oxford, Profiling, Propaganda, Psychiatry, Psychology, Russia, Social Media, Targeting, Tay, Therapy, Trolling, Twitter
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The Suicide Algorithm: Facebook’s Self-Appointed Role in Mental Health

Facebook’s invasive attempts to identify suicidal individuals, while collecting revenue from advertisers targeting them, may do more harm than good.

By Lucy Uprichard | June 28, 2017 | Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Health, Media, Prediction, Psychology | Advertising, AI, Algorithms, Anxiety, Artificial Intelligence, Care, Community, Depression, Facebook, Forums, Health Care, Insecurity, Intervention, Medicine, Mental Health, Profiling, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide, The Australian, The Guardian, Therapy, Trust, Vice
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