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Can Artificial Intelligence Make Communities Peaceful?

Nana Sledzieski, April 11, 2021 This month, the Sloan School of Management at MIT published a blog[1] offering seven lessons for creating successful machine learning projects in organizations. Sara Brown highlighted a 2015 decision by the US Patent and Trademark Agency to analyze the data in over ten million patents the office had amassed in almost 220 years. The thing that caught my attention was that the artificial intelligence also analyzed the decision-making process of the patent examiners, to support...

CU Traits and the Dimensions of Empathy

Youth who have a conduct disorder with callous-unemotional (CU) traits usually display behavior that makes it hard for them to get along with their peers. These traits include a lack of concern for other’s feelings and behavior that is uninhibited by fear. Researchers also suspect that youth with CU traits cannot recognize fear and sadness in other people. In adults, these same traits can be associated with psychopathic behavior. Although these findings about empathy continue to be explored in academic research, the...