facebook New research claims that Facebook is 5 times more polarizing for conservatives than liberals Thom Dunn

Technology Teenagers interview A.I experts about the future of thinking machines David Pescovitz

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow

big tech A successful no-platforming means we can talk about Alex Jones again Cory Doctorow

AI War criminal Henry Kissinger: "AI is the end of the Enlightenment" Cory Doctorow

AI Collecting all the ethical principles for robots, from Asimov to the trade union movement Cory Doctorow

happy mutants CIPPIC: Standing Guard for Canadians' Digital Rights David Fewer, CIPPIC

machine learning Ten recommendations to make AI safe for humanity Cory Doctorow

iot Smart cities are as stupid as the people who make them Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A taxonomy of algorithmic accountability Cory Doctorow

uk UK Parliament to hold inquiry into algorithmic transparency Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets To hell with the Trolley Problem: here's a much more interesting list of self-driving car weirdnesses Cory Doctorow

panama papers It's the criminal economy, stupid! Boing Boing