Afghani women have the right to education too! How one woman was able to give women and young girls access to the gift of education. Her school is attempts to heal tribal and gender divisions.
Author: Jaya Prisco
Women’s rights in Afghanistan: what worked, what didn’t, and why
As the last American troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban, a regime that the U.S spent 20 years and billions of dollars fighting, returned to power. Women’s rights activists and legislators fled the country in fear for their lives. The Taliban banned girls from attending high school & college. How did we get…
Afghani women and humans’ rights
The US and Allied forces withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of a war that had come to “have no clear purpose” was one of the most sensational and dramatic events in modern times. Images of would-be refugees of the war-ravaged country clinging to the sides of American cargo planes proliferated across the internet, penetrating…
Staying connected
If you think about any piece of pop culture about the future, it takes place in a city. Whether we realize it or not, when we imagine the future, we picture cities, and that idea is all the more problematic when it comes to who benefits from technological change and who does not. This episode…
The future of work
If artificial intelligence can do certain tasks better than we can, what does that mean for the concept of work as we know it? We will cover human-AI collaboration in the workplace: what it might look like, what it could accomplish and what policy needs to be put in place to protect the interests of…
Sorry, your phone says you have anxiety
How will certain new standards for data sharing and surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic impact the future of healthcare? In episode two of Consequential’s two-part deep-dive on pandemics, public health and privacy.
Is the presence of a human enough to regulate an AI decision-making system?
From helping to identify tumors to guiding trading decisions on Wall Street, artificial intelligence has begun to inform important decision-making, but always with the input of a human. However, not all humans respond the same way to algorithmic advice. This episode of Consequential looks at human-in-the-loop AI.
The impact of AI and technology in today’s society
Technology is at the core of our lives. Technology has become so ubiquitous that often technological progress has surrogated for the more general notion of progress, hiding truths about social, ideological and philosophical progress that often underpin true progression.It has been forgotten that the point of technology was once to create more productive lives, to…
Hes Zananai (womanhood)
Featured March 8th 2023 • Jaya Prisco • Alain Pottier •Sukha • Madina Forogh •Ahdiya • Sofia • Amidst the current regime of the Taliban, the resilience and splendor of Afghan women shines like a precious gem. Though facing arduous obstacles, they radiate a deep-rooted cultural richness that inspires and illuminates even in the darkest of times. However, their struggles cannot be overlooked….
SL(AI)VES
Featured April 27th 2023 • Jaya Prisco • Alain Pottier • Amir Rezazadeh • Gloryce Dofeel • Renata Aliu • Tea • Anita • Natsumi • Nana Honda • Calculators can replace mathematicians,But can it replace the good old parody of how many apples Johnny was left with? Emojis can replace a good night’s kiss,But can it replace the human heart pounding…