COVID-19 New study: pointing out racial disparities in COVID-19 makes white people more reckless Thom Dunn

happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow

racist algorithms Bing search results are a sewer of far-right memes and similar garbage Rob Beschizza

Science The coded gaze: biased and understudied facial recognition technology Andrea James

Business White House plan to use data to shrink prison populations could be a racist dumpster fire Cory Doctorow

politics How long does it take for Instagram to push you down the alt-right pipeline? Grant St. Clair

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

artificial intelligence No AI impact found on jobs even in 'vulnerable' professions Rob Beschizza

Technology NYC will require businesses to prove A.I. employment software isn't racist or sexist Ruben Bolling

AI Elon Musk deeply concerned that robots can be programmed to not be racist Thom Dunn

crime Facial recognition tool leads to wrongful arrest Grant St. Clair

maps Redlining maps show racism and white supremacy "in 1930s technicolor" Elías Villoro

youtube New study reveals what we all know: YouTube's recommendation algorithms are terrible Thom Dunn

machine learning How AI and machine learning can help improve therapy for humans Thom Dunn

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

media "Zombie" magazines: prestigious publications raised from the dead by hucksters, extremists and morons Rob Beschizza

politics More reporting links Clearview AI to Trump-aligned racists, neo-Nazis, and alt-right trolls Xeni Jardin

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

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

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