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Feature
Nieman LabSam Hinds and Janet Haven discuss how we will grapple with trust of text-generating AI tools. Read on Nieman LabDecember 2020 -
blog post
PointsThe labor of disruption and repair in healthcare. Read on PointsAugust 2020 -
op-ed
SlateThe best way to describe what automation means today might be: machines upfront, people in the back. Read on SlateApril 2020 -
blog post
PointsChis Ramsaroop of Justicia for Migrant Workers writes about the impacts of automation and surveillance on farm workers. Read on PointsSeptember 2019 -
op-ed
The New York TimesBuilding off the research for her book Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work, Data & Society Researcher Alex Rosenblat explains algorithmic management in the gig-economy. "Data and algorithms are present... Read on The New York TimesOctober 2018 -
blog post
PointsArtificial intelligence is increasingly being used across multiple sectors and people often refer to its function as "magic." In this blogpost, D&S researcher Madeleine Clare Elish points out how there's nothing magical abo... Read on PointsJanuary 2018 -
report
Data & Society"Discriminating Tastes" examines how bias may creep into evaluations of Uber drivers through consumer-sourced rating systems. Read moreOctober 2016 -
blog post
EthnographyMatters.netD&S researcher Madeleine Clare Elish asserts ethnography and anthropology's role in studying automation and intelligent systems. Cultural perceptions of the role of humans in automated and robotic systems need to be update... Read on EthnographyMatters.netJune 2016 -
Academic Article
SSRND&S Fellow Sorelle Friedler and D&S Affiliate Ifeoma Ajunwa argue in this essay that well settled legal doctrines that prohibit discrimination against job applicants on the basis of sex or race dictate an examination of... Read on SSRNMarch 2016 -
Longform
SlateD&S Researcher Madeleine Clare Elish considers the possibility of a full-on replacement of humans by robots. She argues that this scenario is nowhere near as close as we have been led to believe. Though algorithms can do an... Read on SlateFebruary 2016