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Slate"Increasingly, what underlies the debate over the so-called sharing economy is a nascent, bigger battle about how society wants machines coordinating and governing human activity. These apps don't match and route people by hand... Read on SlateJuly 2015 -
Longform
QuartzData & Society's Intelligence and Autonomy initiative commissioned authors to envision future scenarios for intelligent systems in four domains: medicine, labor, urban design, and warfare. The future scenario around labo... Read on QuartzJuly 2015 -
op-ed
Quartz"In a self-driving car, the control of the vehicle is shared between the driver and the car’s software. How the software behaves is in turn controlled — designed — by the software engineers. It’s no longer true to say that the ... Read on QuartzJuly 2015 -
Academic Article
arXiv.orgD&S fellow Sorelle Friedler and her research colleagues investigate the ways that algorithms make decisions in all aspects of our lives and whether or not we can determine if these algorithms are biased, involve illegal dis... Read on arXiv.orgJuly 2015 -
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Data & SocietyOn May 19, 2015 a group of about 20 individuals gathered at New America in Washington, DC for a discussion co-hosted by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Data & Society Research Institute, Upturn, and New... Read moreJune 2015 -
Resource
Data & SocietyD&S fellow Tim Hwang participated in a session on "Memory Holes and Security Blankets," a discussion focusing on the legal and policy consequences of systems that process audio, at Listening Machines Summit. Tim's talk d... Read moreJune 2015 -
Longform
ViceData & Society's Intelligence and Autonomy initiative commissioned authors to envision future scenarios for intelligent systems in four domains: medicine, labor, urban design, and warfare. The future scenario around medi... Read on ViceMay 2015 -
Longform
MotherboardData & Society's Intelligence and Autonomy initiative commissioned authors to envision future scenarios for intelligent systems in four domains: medicine, labor, urban design, and warfare. The future scenario around medi... Read on MotherboardMay 2015 -
op-ed
CivicistIn this piece for Civic Hall's Civicist, Samuel Woolley and D&S fellow Tim Hwang argue that "[t]he failure of the ‘good bot’ is a failure of design, not a failure of automation" and urge us not to dismiss the potential bene... Read on CivicistMay 2015 -
Academic Article
Sage Journals"Social media platforms don’t just guide, distort, and facilitate social activity, they also delete some of it. They don’t just link users together, they also suspend them. They don’t just circulate our images and posts, they a... Read on Sage JournalsMay 2015