24 Jun 2022 The Changing Customer Journey Privacy rules, automated algorithms, and increasing opportunities for companies to track users both online and offline have a major impact on an already complex marketing ecosystem, Sara Valentini explains
28 Jun 2022 Short Term Debt Comes with a Penalty in the Cost of Equity Research by Florian Nagler shows that investors ask for higher returns when they buy stock of firms with a higher proportion of short term debt. Long term debt does not have the same effect
23 Jun 2022 Digital Traces Disclosing Domestic Violence Google searches proved to be an effective tool to predict a surge in calls to domestic violence helplines in Italy at any time and a good predictor of calls to emergency numbers in time of crisis, according to new research by Selin Koksal and colleagues
30 Jun 2022 When Machines Learn Prejudices When called upon to complete neutral sentences, popular language models most often use hurtful words if the subject is a woman rather than a man, and even more so if the subject is LGBTQIA+
24 Jun 2022 How to Protect User Rights Against an Algorithm The right to know the motivation of a decision made by artificial intelligence is difficult to enforce. Europe therefore aims to strengthen the stance of users through procedural obligations on platforms, explains Oreste Pollicino
23 Jun 2022 Machines Get It Wrong: How to Avoid that Woman and Gay Are Mistaken as Bad Words Systems to automatically detect online hate can classify terms used to identify victims of homophobic or misogynistic attacks, such as gay or woman, as offensive. A new tool succeeds in mitigating the problem