Points
A home for ideas and reflections at the intersection of technology and society, our blog publishes pieces that consider timely issues and essential questions related to our work and the field.
If you have an idea, get in touch at [email protected].
Series
The Cloud is Dead
In this series, we explore how communities have addressed the unequal power dynamics between technology production and deployment, and how tech impacts people and the environment
Participation and Trust
Digital Infrastructures, Material Consequences
Members of the Trustworthy Infrastructures team write about their research road trip through Pennsylvania, where they traced the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present.
Policy and Accountability
What Does Silicon Valley Want?
In a personal reflection, Brian J. Chen offers some lines of inquiry, directions, and tentative explanations for understanding and engaging on matters of tech policy in this moment.
Reframing Our Relationship to Technology
Insights from the Data for Black Lives Conference
Anuli Akanegbu reflects on the connections between data practices and systemic racism, and offers resolutions to guide work that prioritizes the humane over the artificial.
Policy and Accountability
July 24, 2024
Why AI Safety Requires a Sociotechnical Approach: Our Top Ten Reads
February 1, 2024
Why We’re Endorsing the AI Environmental Impacts Act
Brian J. Chen and Tamara Kneese explain why we’re taking the unusual step of endorsing the AI Environmental Impacts Act of 2024.
January 10, 2024
Measuring Justice: Field Notes on Algorithmic Impact Assessments
What does it look like to assess how algorithms impact people’s lives, choices, and access to essential services?
Participation and Trust
February 5, 2025
Digital Infrastructures, Material Consequences
Members of the Trustworthy Infrastructures team write about their research road trip through Pennsylvania, where they traced the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present.
September 18, 2024
The Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab: Methods from the Field
The AIMLab team reflects on why they’ve shifted from thinking about their work as being about “impact assessment” to understanding it as a form of impact engagement.
March 13, 2024
A Working History of the Verified Internet
Robyn Caplan introduces her research on the history of the verified badge: the familiar checkmark that is “one of the few symbols of stratification on the internet that is visible to us, the user.”
Reframing Our Relationship to Technology
May 29, 2024
The Science and Technology of Social Justice
Dr. Sará King on healing through contemplative technology
January 24, 2024
When Kindness Kills
How algorithms accelerate savior swarms
August 16, 2023
Doppelgangers in a Digital world
From deep fakes and avatars to big data, we all have a doppelganger that lives and acts online.