Technology Algorithms in college admissions could make discrimination worse Mark Frauenfelder

Technology California strips consumer protections against automated decision-making systems Mark Frauenfelder

algorithms Coded Bias and the Algorithm Justice League Elías Villoro

books A search engine for weird old books Gareth Branwyn

cognitive biases This Silicon Valley startup wants to help call centers sound more white Thom Dunn

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

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

law Identity theft's newest target: your face Albert Fox Cahn

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