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op-ed
NatureD&S affiliate Kate Crawford, with Ryan Calo, wrote this piece discussing risks in AI. Artificial intelligence presents a cultural shift as much as a technical one. This is similar to technological inflection points of the ... Read on NatureOctober 2016 -
blog post
BackchannelD&S advisor Susan Crawford discusses how streetlights are becoming a part of the Internet of Things. But the third step was the charm: This past summer, Santa Monica adopted an ordinance requiring that wireless carriers ge... Read on BackchannelOctober 2016 -
blog post
MediumD&S affiliate Wilneida Negrón writes five tips to allow for more inclusive AI research. Although, a step in the right direction, the Partnership on AI does highlight a certain conundrum — what exactly is it that we want ... Read on MediumOctober 2016 -
Academic Article
SSRNSarah Bird, Fernando Diaz, Hanna Wallach, with D&S affiliates Solon Barocas and Kate Crawford, wrote this analysis about implications in autonomous experimentation in AI. In the field of computer science, large-scale exp... Read on SSRNOctober 2016 -
Book or Chapter
Data & SocietyD&S researchers Madeleine Clare Elish and Tim Hwang discuss the social challenges of AI in their collection of essays, An AI Pattern Language. From the authors: How are practitioners grappling with the social impacts ... Read moreSeptember 2016 -
report
Data & Society"The Wisdom of the Captured" analyzes how widely captured data of technologies, which enable these technologies to make intelligent decisions, may negatively impact users. Read moreSeptember 2016 -
blog post
MediumD&S affiliate Karen Crawford wrote a compelling piece, sparked by Facebook's censorship of "The Terror of War" photograph, on the social impacts of artificial intelligence. The core issue here isn’t that AI is worse than t... Read on MediumSeptember 2016 -
Academic Article
Florida Law Review ForumThe mythology surrounding “big data” rests on the notion that technical systems can increase efficiency and decrease bias. Such “neutral” systems are supposedly good for implementing legal logic because, like these systems, law... Read on Florida Law Review ForumAugust 2016 -
video
Data & SocietyOver the summer of 2014, Tim Maughan joined the nomadic design studio Unknown Fields on a three week long journey. They followed a supply chain (in reverse) from South Korea to China to trace the source of our consumer goods. A... Read moreJuly 2016 -
blog post
PointsKiel Brennan-Marquez unpacks Spokeo v. Robins, with an eye to effective governance of algorithms in the future. Read on PointsJune 2016