events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow
Copyfight On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, internet-destroying copyright proposal that'll censor everything from Tinder profiles to Wikipedia (SHARE THIS!) Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" 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
Business A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation Cory Doctorow
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
antitrust To help the news business, subject Big Tech to antitrust — but don't forget Big News's antitrust problem Cory Doctorow
surveillance Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol's predictive policing services? Cory Doctorow
first days of a better nation No one's coming – it's up to us: it's past time for technologists to be responsible to society Dan Hon
videos Ethics and AI: all models are wrong, some are useful, and some of those are good Cory Doctorow
gender Forget Skynet: AI is already making things terrible for people who aren't rich white dudes Cory Doctorow
agitprop A project to algorithmically generate all "prior art" and obviate the patent system Mark Frauenfelder
