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Civil rights groups were understandably horrified after Elon Musk endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students have lower IQs.

Civil Rights Groups Horrified at Elon Musk’s Racist Outburst Against Black People

By Victor Tangermann

Musk has endorsed a tweet suggesting students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities have lower IQs and shouldn't become pilots.

Elon Musk Cosigns Racist Claim That Black Students Have Low IQs

By Victor Tangermann

In a disturbing co-sign, Elon Musk has agreed with a shocking claim about Jewish people that goes beyond his prior bigotry.

Elon Musk Calls Disgusting Anti-Jewish Tweet the “Actual Truth”

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Asian fashion model is clapping back against the use of AI to make her look white in photos from a recent runway show.

Artificial Intelligence

Asian Runway Model Says AI Was Used to Make Her Look White

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is once again being sued for discrimination over alleged racist displays and retaliation at its California factories.

Tesla Factory Accused of Displaying Swastikas and Other Racist Material

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Justice Department is suing SpaceX, alleging it has been discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices.

The Department of Justice Just Sued SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

Gone are the good old days of homophobia and racism at NASA — and to some Republican senators, that's a problem.

Senators Complain That NASA Isn’t Allowed to Be Racist Anymore

By Noor Al-Sibai

IT company Arthur Grand Technologies is feeling the heat for a racist job listing that it's blaming on a rogue employee. Many don't buy its explanation.

Tech Company Accidentally Posts Racist “White-Only” Job Listing, Shrinks Into a Corncob

By Frank Landymore

No, it's not just your imagination — gamers are indeed more racist and sexist than the general populace, and now, there's science backing up the obvious.

Scientists Find That Gamers Are Indeed More Racist and Sexist Than Normies

By Noor Al-Sibai

The DALL-E Mini image generator is super fun to play around with — but like all neural networks, it has a pretty big racism problem.

Artificial Intelligence

That AI Image Generator Is Spitting Out Some Awfully Racist Stuff

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

People who think evolution is a bunch of academic hogwash are, per a new study, much more likely to be bigoted.

It Turns Out People Who Don’t Believe in Evolution Are Racist Jerks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk really needs to log off.

Tesla Racism Payout Lowered by Almost 90 Percent

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report published yesterday includes testimony from Tesla employees who say they were called racist slurs and later fired.

More Employees Are Saying That Tesla’s Factory Is Horrifically Racist

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A black woman who used to work at Tesla's plant in California sued the carmaker after suffering "painful abuses reminiscent of the Jim Crow era."

Woman Sues Tesla for “Rampant” Racism

By Victor Tangermann

The Open Source Afro Hair Library was designed to improve the way digital artists and video game developers portray 3D models of Black hairstyles.

3D Artists Create Better Models of Black Hairstyles for Video Games

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A company that provides human resources training to businesses has reportedly been using white actors to play Black characters in its VR training.

Company Under Fire for Using White Actors to Play Black Characters in VR Training

By Tony Ho Tran

The South African scientist who was first to alert the world to the existence of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant believes it may have mutated in people with HIV.

A Disastrous Collision Between COVID and HIV May Have Caused the Omicron Variant

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI created Ask Delphi to make ethical judgments — but it turned out to be awfully bigoted and racist instead.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist

By Tony Ho Tran

The tone at the first in-person United Nations since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was pretty "dire," the Associated Press reports.

Member Nations Alarmed by Bleak Future During “Dire” UN Meeting

By Victor Tangermann

Social media giant Facebook issued an apology on Friday after their AI labeled a group of Black men in a video as “primates."

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Apologizes for Racist AI That Labeled Black Men as “Primates”

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is finally taking stock and getting rid of the various racist nicknames the space agency has granted objects in space over the years.

Science & Energy

NASA Says It Will Stop Using Racist Names for Space Objects

By Dan Robitzski

Michael Lofthouse, a San Francisco tech CEO, launched a racist tirade against a nearby family celebrating a birthday at a restaurant.

Watch a Tech CEO Melt Down in a Racist Tirade

By Dan Robitzski

To show solidarity with ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and to draw attention to racism in their workplaces, black academics are organizing a strike.

Black Researchers Are Holding an Academic Strike to Support BLM

By Dan Robitzski

The creation of biased AIs is linked to the tech industry's overwhelmingly white, male workforce, according to a new report.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts: To Solve AI’s Bias Problem, Hire Fewer White Men

By Kristin Houser

Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services

Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services

By Kristin Houser

The LAPD’s Terrifying Palantir-Powered Policing Algorithm Was Just Uncovered and Yes It’s Basically ‘Minority Report’

Artificial Intelligence

The LAPD’s Terrifying Palantir-Powered Policing Algorithm Was Just Uncovered and Yes It’s Basically ‘Minority Report’

By Dan Robitzski