The AI industry is seizing on Pittsburgh's industrial history, so central to the region’s identity, to sell its future as a “global leader in artificial intelligence.” Yet telling the city's story as one of seamless progress fl...

Meg Young and Tamara Kneese write about AIMLab’s community-based algorithmic impact assessment of the City of San José’s computer vision pilot program, and what happened when front-page article broke news about the pilot while ...

Three Mile Island, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is coming back online to power the AI boom. Livia Garofalo, Joan Mukogosi, and Maia Woluchem explore what this means for the surrounding community.  

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.

Part Three: The Celebrity Wars

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.

Part two: The battle between Friendsters and Fakesters    

   

Part one: Studying a moving target

Why we need participatory methods in AI, and what this looks like at Data & Society.