weapons of math destruction Airbnb has software that searches social media to identify creeps and psychopaths Mark Frauenfelder
automated authoritarianism Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
"Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
hirevue When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener Cory Doctorow
facesoft Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow
ai and ethics Pentagon reassures public that its autonomous robotic tank adheres to "legal and ethical standards" for AI-driven killbots Cory Doctorow
kafkaed into the full orwell London councils plan to slash benefit payments with an "anti-fraud" system known to have a 20% failure rate Cory Doctorow
empirical facewash Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow
garbage training data in Amazon trained a sexism-fighting, resume-screening AI with sexist hiring data, so the bot became sexist Cory Doctorow
debtors prisons Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow
demonstrating salience The ACLU showed that Amazon's facial recognition system thinks members of Congress are felons, so now Congress is taking action Cory Doctorow
The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless Cory Doctorow
