facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire 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
AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
Copyfight "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
AI "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
AI AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow
books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
scholarship Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow
surveillance Mozilla's Internet Health Report: discriminatory AI, surveilling smart cities, ad-tech Cory Doctorow
surveillance The Safe Face Pledge: an ethical code of conduct for facial recognition scientists and developers Cory Doctorow
california Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow
