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Academic Article
Sage Journals‘@AP: Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured’. So read a tweet sent from a hacked Associated Press Twitter account @AP, which affected financial markets, wiping out $136.5 billion of the Standar... Read on Sage JournalsMay 2015 -
video
Data & SocietyKate Crawford has suggested that critics of algorithms suffer from a "metaphor gap" in trying to make sense of how algorithmic systems work. In this conversational provocation, Nick Seaver argues that we can usefully think of r... Read moreApril 2015 -
video
Tech Policy Lab University of Washington"As policy concerns around intelligent and autonomous systems come to focus increasingly on transparency and usability, the time is ripe for an inquiry into the theater of autonomous systems. When do (and when should) law and p... Read on Tech Policy Lab University of WashingtonApril 2015 -
video
The Agenda with Steve Paikin"Algorithms are a part of our daily lives, impacting everything from our Internet searches, to our credit scores, healthcare and policing. As they become more ubiquitous, The Agenda asks whether we should allow ourselves to be ... Read on The Agenda with Steve PaikinMarch 2015 -
Longform
Data & SocietyHeld March 24-25, 2015 at Data & Society, the I&A Forum was an in-person intensive working session that used scenarios drawn from science fiction as a means of bringing together experts from a variety of different secto... Read moreMarch 2015 -
report
Data & SocietyWhat will happen to current regimes of liability when driverless cars become commercially available? What happens when there is no human actor—only a computational agent—responsible for an accident? "Praise the Machine! Punish the Human!" addresses these questions by examining the historical emergence and response to autopilot and cruise control. Read moreFebruary 2015 -
podcast
Radio NZ"Seeta Gangadharan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open Technology Institute in Washington DC [and a D&S fellow]. She discusses the automated systems, known as algorithms, that are replacing human discretion more and mor... Read on Radio NZFebruary 2015 -
MIT Technology Review"What does a city taken over by computers—or perhaps smartphones—look like? "[D&S fellow Anthony Townsend:] 'A city that’s taken over by computers designed by a big technology company is going to look like a machine. It’s ... Read on MIT Technology ReviewNovember 2014
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Longform
QuartzSelf driving cars are no longer in our distant future, they're here and they're becoming more independent however, D&S fellow Anthony Townsend and NYU colleague, Greg Lindsay argue that this approach is "looking at the wron... Read on QuartzNovember 2014 -
Resource
Data & SocietyThis primer addresses the persistent obstacles that communities of color face within our consumer finance system, and investigates the role of rapidly changing technologies therein. Read moreOctober 2014