All posts tagged: riskier

To combat polarization, a Houston interfaith group embraces riskier dialogue

To combat polarization, a Houston interfaith group embraces riskier dialogue

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of RNS’ Love Thy Neighbor series. You can read all the stories here. (RNS) — In the months after Oct. 7, 2023, Shariq Ghani, the 44-year-old Muslim executive director of the Houston-based civic multifaith nonprofit Bridges, began hosting regular, emergency meetings with Jewish and Muslim community partners in the city. Interfaith relations in Texas — like the rest of the country — were tense. As the war in Gaza progressed, reported incidents of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate crimes, discrimination and harassment skyrocketed across the state and the U.S. While such polarization over politics, culture and religion isn’t a new issue facing interfaith collaboration, Ghani said he’s seen it exacerbated since the 2016 elections, and again after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, and the ensuing Gaza and Iran wars. He wanted Bridges — founded by Muslim Texans 16 years ago amid rising prejudice after 9/11 — to work with its partners to find ways of maintaining dialogue when old models were failing and fewer people were reaching across political, religious and cultural barriers, he …

Your job search is getting riskier, says LinkedIn – 9 ways to tell real listings from scams

Your job search is getting riskier, says LinkedIn – 9 ways to tell real listings from scams

Published by skeptic

J Studios/ DigitalVision via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Job and recruitment scams are on the rise, and new tactics can fool even distrustful job seekers. We’ve listed the biggest red flags to watch for in your job hunt, underscored by new LinkedIn research. 57% of professionals are more likely than a year ago to question whether a job is a scam. It’s a rough job market out there, thanks to broad economic uncertainty — and scammers certainly aren’t helping.  Job and recruitment scams are nothing new; however, they used to be fairly easy to spot. Sketchy or nonexistent companies, requests for money to join a “work program,” and demands for payment card details or pre-onboarding purchases — these were the only scams we needed to be aware of.  Also: I’m a tech professional, and an AI job scam almost fooled me – here’s how I caught on The game has changed. As highlighted by LinkedIn’s first Job Search Safety Pulse report, published on Wednesday, safety is a …

Women perceive AI as riskier than men do, study finds

Women perceive AI as riskier than men do, study finds

Published by José Betancourt

An online survey found that women consistently perceive AI to be riskier than men. The key drivers behind this view are women’s higher general risk aversion and their greater exposure to AI-related risks. The paper was published in PNAS Nexus. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad term for computer systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as recognizing patterns, making predictions, understanding language, or supporting decisions. AI is used in companies to automate routine work, analyze large amounts of data, improve customer service, and support faster decision-making. For example, firms use AI in chatbots, fraud detection, demand forecasting, recommendation systems, quality control, document processing, and an increasing number of other areas. The main benefits of AI for companies include greater efficiency, lower costs, faster processing, improved consistency, and the ability to extract useful insights from complex data. AI can also help companies become more competitive by improving products, responding more quickly to customers, and identifying opportunities earlier. However, AI also brings risks, including inaccurate outputs, biased decisions, privacy problems, security vulnerabilities, …

Nothing Is Riskier Than Love

Nothing Is Riskier Than Love

Published by Jenni Sidey

Co-authored by Mark Shelvock and Dr. Phyllis Kosminsky. Nothing is riskier than love, yet we are often taught to imagine love as gentle and benign. In popular culture, love is often framed as something that soothes us, completes us, or protects us from pain. Yet, this version of love leaves out something essential. Love, from the beginning, was never meant to be risk-free. To love someone is to offer your most tender, most unarmoured and vulnerable self, without any assurance that this offering will be met. Even when love is met, another risk immediately follows: the risk of loss. So, why do we do it? Why We Love We love because we have no choice. We are deeply relational beings before we are anything else. Connection is not a preference or a personality trait; it is a biological, social, and psychological imperative. Being held within a human web of connection is what steadies us in a world that can feel too vast, too unpredictable, and too much to face alone. From the moment we take …

Women think artificial intelligence is riskier than men do, study finds

Women think artificial intelligence is riskier than men do, study finds

Published by Jenni Sidey

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the nature of how people work; however, people have different opinions of the risk and reward of using AI technology. According to a recent study conducted by Beatrice Magistro and her co-authors at Northeastern University, compared to men, women are more likely to view AI (specifically generative AI) as risky. Using large survey samples from the U.S. and Canada, this research also identifies risk exposure and tolerance as possible contributing factors to this gender gap. Magistro and her team sought to determine why women tended to be more cautious than men toward new technologies. Previous studies about automation indicated that a significant percentage of respondents (approximately half) expressed caution or concern about new technologies. This research proposes that a person’s exposure to risk and tolerance for risk are essential components of understanding their feelings about the uncertainty of using new technologies. As AI continues to be adopted by more organizations, the potential benefits associated with AI, such as improved productivity and increased intelligence, are countered by significant risks, including job …