Data & Society’s comment on the OMB draft guidance applauds the important steps it takes toward AI accountability, and encourages OMB to keep those measures in its final guidance. Read more

Data & Society is pleased to introduce eleven new affiliates to our cohort of talented researchers, thinkers, and advocates. Read more

December 7, 2023 — On December 6, Data & Society Executive Director Janet Haven addressed the bipartisan AI Insight Forum in a session focused on “risk, alignment, and guarding against doomsday scenarios.” She emphasized to... Read more

Learn more about this upcoming workshop that will examine alternative formulations of trust, data, and algorithmic systems by widening the frame on the contexts, approaches, and communities implicated in them.  Read more

August 9, 2023 — Our response to the National Science Foundation’s RFI highlights the benefits that a public interest, sociotechnically oriented Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) would bring to the ... Read more

July 19, 2023 — Data & Society’s comment to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) outlines the broader strategy we believe the White House should pursue to ensure that AI technology not only is safe... Read more

Data & Society is pleased to announce that Tamara Kneese has joined the organization as Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab’s (AIMLab) senior researcher and project director. Read more

Automated worker surveillance and management systems present grave risks to workers, their families, and their communities. Many employers are using such systems in unlawful ways that undermine workers’ health, safety, pay, autonomy, legal rights, and collective power. Read more

Data & Society’s comment to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) addresses the purposes, possibilities, and limitations of algorithmic accountability mechanisms and the structures and regulations needed to realize a true democratic system of algorithmic accountability in the United States. Read more

May 24, 2023—Data & Society (D&S) is pleased to welcome eleven new affiliates, adding to an existing group of researchers, thinkers, and advocates who regularly collaborate with and lend their insight to the organizatio... Read more