“The message of many things in America is “Like this or die.” — George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context, 1980 The camera is a small, white, curvilinear monolith on a pedestal. Inside its smooth casing are a microphone, a speaker, and an eye-like lens.”
“As governments around the world plan for their AI-powered futures, the UK is preparing to take on a somewhat scholarly and moral mantle.”
Read: The UK says it can’t lead on AI spending, so will have to lead on AI ethics instead
“As governments around the world plan for their AI-powered futures, the UK is preparing to take on a somewhat scholarly and moral mantle.”
Read: The UK says it can’t lead on AI spending, so will have to lead on AI ethics instead
“Two weeks ago, The Verge reported the existence of a six-year predictive policing collaboration between the New Orleans Police Department and Palantir Technologies, a data mining giant co-founded by Peter Thiel.”
Read: New Orleans ends its Palantir predictive policing program
“New York City is taking the first steps to address algorithmic bias in city services. City council passed a bill last week that will require the city to address bias in algorithms used by the New York Police Department, the city’s courts, and dozens of city agencies.”
Read: New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City
“New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition technology is subject to biases based on the data sets provided and the conditions in which algorithms are created.”
Read: Facial recognition software is biased towards white men, researcher finds
“Hey Instagram. I was just wondering, Kind of one-note. And I get why: somewhere, an algorithm has (correctly) identified that I do yoga,”
“Can artificial intelligence be racist? Well, it depends. Let’s say you’re an African-American student at a school that uses facial recognition software. The school uses it to access the building and online homework assignments. But the software’s got a problem.”
“Can artificial intelligence be racist? Well, it depends. Let’s say you’re an African-American student at a school that uses facial recognition software. The school uses it to access the building and online homework assignments. But the software’s got a problem.”
“As facial recognition tools play a bigger role in fighting crime, inbuilt racial biases raise troubling questions about the systems that create them 04.00 EST Last modified on Monday 4 December 2017 11.01 EST “You good?” a man asked two narcotics detectives late in the summer of 2015.”
Read: How white engineers built racist code – and why it’s dangerous for black people