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www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Tuesday Oct 15, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [How A.I. Could Fix Workplace Harassment]( While AI has its blind spots, it can also see patterns and problems that we can’t. Human societies carry centuries of discriminatory beliefs and practices. Robots, we thought, would not be so encumbered. It’s now known that artificial intelligence has biases, though. Crime prognostication tools like COMPAS and PredPol have been accused by experts of being racist, causing criminal justice officials to unfairly target people of color and majority-minority neighborhoods. Facial recognition software by IBM and Microsoft accurately guessed White men’s gender, but it failed miserably when it came to dark-skinned women. And last year Amazon had to scrap an internal AI recruiting tool that was found to be anti-women. So who is going to solve this problem? More robots. But this time, better ones. [READ MORE]( 2 [Need to Know]( [Need to Know]( [Beyond the Nobel: Esther Duflo Goes Granular on the Problems of Poverty]( Esther Duflo, the youngest to win a Nobel in economics and only the second woman, is rethinking solutions to poverty problems. Film director Satyajit Ray and actor Marlon Brando walked through the streets of Kolkata in 1967. Ray pushed through the assemblage of beggars and street kids. Brando, appalled, called him on it before Ray, according to Brando’s memoir, put his hand on Brando’s shoulder and said, “You can’t help them all.” The attitude largely frames how the rest of the world, the haves, thinks about the other portion, the have-nots. Unless your name is Esther Duflo. The 46-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, along with husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, decided if the devil was in the details, then maybe that was a good place to start looking. On Monday, it netted them the Nobel Prize in economics. Where politicians have traditionally gone macro — everything from government cheese to widely maligned welfare programs — Duflo and crew went micro. And globally so. [READ MORE]( 3 [Acumen]( [Acumen]( [Women Are Breaking Ultramarathon Barriers]( Men still have the physical advantages. But not all of them. The proportion of women in ultramarathons was very low at the beginning of the ultrarunning movement. Records began for U.S. 100-mile ultramarathons in the late 1970s, and the proportion of women was basically zero. Now it’s steady at 20 percent. And not only are women running, but they’re winning. In fact, in 2019 so far, two major races and several less well-known ultras have been won outright by women. [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by: Well Being Trust]( [A Substance Misuse Intervention with Proven Results]( In Kentucky, a substance misuse intervention program for parents called START is producing positive results. Part of the success lies in its' unique, holistic treatment modules, including using parents in recovery to serve as mentors for families. [Learn more.]( 4 [Rising Stars]( [An Airbnb for Corporate Relocations Sets Sights on World Domination]( Dustin Figge has built a travel heavyweight in Cologne, Germany. Now he’s coming to the U.S. 5 [True Story]( [Hanging With Tupac During His Last Year Alive]( As Hollywood hangouts go, porn star Mr. Marcus and hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur becoming friends shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone. 6 [Acumen]( [Japan’s Seaweed Industry Is in Jeopardy]( In Japan, climate change could soon be keeping sushi off menus. 7 [Flashback]( [Luca Brasi Sleeps With the Fishes No Longer]( If you knew the fictional mobster, then you knew real-life mobster-turned-actor Lenny Montana — both courtesy of The Godfather. 8 [Fast Forward]( [Morocco Emerges as a Model for Protecting Women]( This North African country is becoming a regional leader in battling crimes against women, thanks to a combination of laws, education and social initiatives. 9 [Rising Stars]( [So Who Will Plug In All the Driverless Electric Cars?]( Alex Gruzen is developing wireless charging pads for electric vehicles that could shift America’s car-owning landscape. 10 [Acumen]( [Why Dollar Stores Are Coming to a Neighborhood Near You]( Middle-income consumers represent the fastest-growing segment of shoppers for dollar stores. You Should Know This [Disruptive Literary Legends]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](