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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. The entire focus of our social message is to know your audience,” Elaina told us.

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How a bruising Microsoft lawsuit fueled the fight for fair pay

The Verge

An indigenous Chamorro woman from an island just north of Guam, Anuncia worked as an infertility specialist, researching in vitro fertilization and stem cell techniques. Her hiring manager asked her previous salary during the interview, a practice that has since been outlawed in Washington state for perpetuating pay disparities.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

officials go to great lengths to quell these concerns, saying, we are not going to let the genie out of the bottle, but every interview of a concerned AI scientist seeds doubt in these reassurances, and a headline AI agent caught hacking Arthropodics computers doesnt set the public at ease either. Caption: The war begins.