the silver screen Former FX tech person points out the racist trajectory of skin and hair CGI Clive Thompson

nist NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

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

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

networked authoritarianism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow

automated authoritarianism Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

shitty technology adoption curve "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

algorithmic bias After analyzing 3.5 million books, researchers learn most common adjectives used to describe men and women Mark Frauenfelder

facial recognition.google.race Identity theft's newest target: your face Albert Fox Cahn

clarke's third law "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

cheap tricks AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

some models are useful Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

sampling errors Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow

internet health report Mozilla's Internet Health Report: discriminatory AI, surveilling smart cities, ad-tech Cory Doctorow

weapons of math discrimination The Safe Face Pledge: an ethical code of conduct for facial recognition scientists and developers Cory Doctorow

debtors prisons Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow

speech recognition Voice assistants suck, but they suck worse if you have an "accent" Cory Doctorow

ethnic affinities Facebook forced to drop "feature" that let advertisers block black people, old people and women Cory Doctorow

revenge of alice u Thanks to 2016's trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America's courts have become AI-Kafka nightmares Cory Doctorow

plenty of room at the bottom Garbage In, Garbage Out: machine learning has not repealed the iron law of computer science Cory Doctorow