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
shitty technology adoption curve "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
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless Cory Doctorow
