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Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) draw non-intuitive and unverifiable inferences and predictions about the behaviors, preferences, and private
BREAKING FREE OF OLD PATTERNS
Some employees say Google is losing touch with its “Don’t be evil” motto. What happens when an empowered tech workforce rebels?
From exploding Ford Pintos to racist algorithms, all harmful technologies are a product of unethical design. Yet, like car companies in the ’70s, today’s tech companies would rather bla…
An open letter from OTI Director Kevin Bankston
Attempts to "fix" biased AI can actually harm black, gay, and transgender people.
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Nature - Forty years on from a foundational report on how to protect people participating in research, cracks are showing, warns Nathaniel Raymond.
A received wisdom is that automated decision-making serves as an anti-bias intervention. The conceit is that removing humans from the decision-making process wi
AI security expert Dawn Song warns that “adversarial machine learning” could be used to reverse-engineer systems—including those used in defense.
How "adversarial attacks" can mess with self-driving cars, medicine, and the military.
The trend toward more prevalent and less transparent automation in agency decision-making is deeply concerning. The history and present of the administrative state’s addiction to automation suggest a need to make fresh choices regarding the future.
Why data science is a profound threat for queer people
We asked experts for practical suggestions on why Google’s AI ethics council bombed and what the company should do next.
The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that...
The human-centered approach that can combat algorithmic bias.
In an edited extract from his upcoming book Ruined by Design, Silicon Valley veteran Mike Monteiro explains how designers destroyed the world.
As algorithms play a growing role in criminal justice, education and more, tech advisory boards and academic programs mirror real-world inequality