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Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are uniquely situated to address the financial needs of underinvested markets. DataKind’s landscape, Innovating for Inclusion: Advancing US Community Development Financial Institutions with Data Science, reviews the history and role of CDFIs in financial inclusion, key challenges the industry faces, stakeholders, and data science opportunities. Take a look! https://bit.ly/46gs2xd #datakind #cdfis #financialinclusion #economicopportunity  #datascience #AI #socialimpact

Great seeing Anjali Joshi, Chip Huyen, and some of the other inspiring women who I've covered over the years included on this list by my colleague Elisabeth Strenger! I'd add Sarah Catanzaro, General Partner at Amplify Partners, to the list. After working in counterterrorism and as the head of data at a market intelligence company, she made the move to venture capital where she has focused on investing in data and analytics and AI/ML startups. Who would you add? #AI #Tech #Analytics #DataScience #WomenInData RTInsights

IS THAT REALLY YOU? On the latest #FactsAboutPACs, Sarah Bonk, Founder and CEO of Business for America, discusses how we can all help defend our organizations against AI deepfakes. Tune in to learn why we should be viewing these threats to democracy as a business issue for your PACs and your organizations. https://lnkd.in/ep-rBKMy

#GenAI is giving threat actors new tools to commit #cyberattacks. Tune in as Check Point CTO Dr. Dorit Dor joins a #CNBCxWEF24 panel to discuss how organizations can fight back. Tune in: https://lnkd.in/eHgVhxwC #WEF2024

"Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives" from Giovanna Mascheroni and Andra Siibak is dedicated to describing and critiquing practices of datafication that sustain what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Datafication is described as both an outcome and an intensifier of deep mediatization: an outcome, as almost all social action and interaction is now mediatized and generates data traces, but also an accelerator, as algorithmic-based automations increasingly characterize and structure our opportunities for interaction and agency... A book review by Jonathan (Jonny) Hankins https://lnkd.in/dXdFKwfp #datification #algorithm #children #surveillance

🚀 Please check out our recent paper, JRDB-Social, which has been accepted at #CVPR2024. JRDB-Social is a multifaceted robotic dataset aimed at understanding human interactions within social groups. This innovative dataset offers insights across three key levels:  Individual Attributes  Intra-Group Interactions  Social Group Dynamics 📍 For more details, explore our paper:  https://lnkd.in/gw72RjYd Stay tuned as we prepare to release the code and data associated with JRDB-Social! 🎯 #Dataset #benchmark #CVPR #CVPR2024 #VLM JRDB - JackRabbot Dataset and Benchmark

#GenAI is giving threat actors new tools to commit #cyberattacks. Tune in as Check Point CTO Dr. Dorit Dor joins a #CNBCxWEF24 panel to discuss how organizations can fight back. Tune in: https://lnkd.in/epr68Bcg #WEF2024

📰#Disinformation, content verification, #factchecking. Artificial intelligence poses many new challenges for mankind. It has never been easier (even for a layperson) to create #deepfakes and deceive the public with altered information. ❌ Deepfakes pose a serious threat to democracy and successfully identifying and exposing them will be a key success factor in political communication in the future, especially in regard to elections. The European Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) highlights the dangers of disinformation campaigns, especially in the lead-up to the upcoming European elections, as reported in a recent Tagesschau article. According to ENISA, the subliminal unsettling of citizens through disinformation campaigns is an even bigger threat than malicious cyberattacks on the electoral process. Disinformation campaigns intend to influence voters with the aim to control online discourse and manipulate debates in the digital election campaign. 🗣 Hence, it is more important than ever to detect and prevent fake news and disinformation. Ubermetrics Technologies GmbH, the UNICEPTA innovation hub, contributes as a proud research partner of the news-polygraph project funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung to this very goal. 📢 Vera Schmitt and Tim Polzehl presented the project last week at re:publica #re24. If you are curious to learn more about the news-polygraph make sure to checkout their keynote (only available in German) here: https://lnkd.in/em3NJv5M

Interesting Fortune article: Going to war against #Deepfakes https://yhoo.it/42caJMI, identifies @DeepMedia, @RealityDefender & #FakeCatcher that help detect deepfakes

#GenAI is here to stay. But the good guys can use it too! 👀 You can now watch this full on-demand webinar, where Abe Post-Hyatt, Vincent Gaglioti, and I explore the latest trends in online fraud, with a focus on the growing threat of deepfakes and synthetic media: https://lnkd.in/gXnDjC98 🔗