2014-2015 Fellow
Tim Hwang
Tim Hwang is a partner at Robot Robot & Hwang, a law firm and technology consultancy focusing on experiments at the intersection of legal and computer code. He leads an initiative seeking to develop general principles and common frameworks to guide policymaking as intelligent systems emerge and become increasingly ubiquitous in a variety of arenas including capital markets, warfare, medicine, transportation, and social life at large.
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Academic article
June 28, 2017
Discriminating Tastes: Uber’s Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Workplace Discrimination
D&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang and D&S affiliates Solon Barocas and Karen Levy examine how bias may creep into evaluations of Uber drivers through consumer-sourced…
Discriminating Tastes: Uber’s Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Workplace Discrimination
D&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang and D&S affiliates Solon Barocas and Karen Levy…
June 28, 2017
Academic article
Abstract: Consumer-sourced rating systems are a dominant method of worker evaluation in platform-based work. These systems facilitate the semi-automated management of large…
Discriminating Tastes: Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Bias
Abstract: Consumer-sourced rating systems are a dominant method of worker evaluation in…
October 19, 2016
Report
Report
October 13, 2016
Regional Diversity in Autonomy and Work: A Case Study from Uber and Lyft Drivers
D&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang explore "the significant role of worker motivations and regional political environments on the social and economic outcomes of…
Regional Diversity in Autonomy and Work: A Case Study from Uber and Lyft Drivers
D&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang explore "the significant role of worker motivations…
October 13, 2016
Report
D&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…
An AI Pattern Language
D&S researchers Madeleine Clare Elish and Tim Hwang discuss the social challenges of AI in their…
September 29, 2016
Book
D&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang analyze how widely captured data of technologies, which enable these technologies to make intelligent decisions, may negatively impact…
The Wisdom of the Captured
D&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang analyze how widely captured data of technologies…
September 16, 2016
Report
D&S Researcher Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley consider the larger trend toward automated politics and the likely future sophistication of automated politics and potential impacts on…
How Politicians Should and Shouldn’t Use Twitter Bots
D&S Researcher Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley consider the larger trend toward automated politics and…
March 8, 2016
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