Women scholars warned us about racist and sexist AI. Now, everyone is talking about racist and sexist AI. As many western nations, especially the United States grapple with rising cases of Covid-19, mass unemployment, and civil unrest, it’s never been clearer that biased AI is a reflection of our systemic inequities, misplaced priorities, and the marginalized groups we are leaving behind.
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Representation Matters
Missing Voices of The Social Dilemma
Tim O’Brien @_TimOBrien
“The film does a fine job of bringing awareness of harms from tech to a mass audience, but it doesn’t rely on the voices of the domain’s best, most knowledgeable experts.” Read more.
‘The Social Dilemma’ Left Out Some Important Thinkers. Mozilla Made a List
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry @C2i2_UCLA
“A Twitter thread from Mozilla on September 22 documented, many of the foremost voices calling for more ethical tech were absent from The Social Dilemma.”
The Virus Moved Female Faculty to the Brink. Will Universities Help?
Mia Shah-Dand @MiaD
“The pandemic is a new setback for women in academia who already faced obstacles on the path to advancing their research and careers.”
Janae Sharp @CoherenceMed
“America’s first female recession deepened in September: More women left the labor force than the total number of jobs the country added last month.”
AI Policy, Data Colonialism, and Racial Injustice
Mass surveillance permitted only for national security concerns, EU court says
Antonio Vieira Santos @AkwyZ
“EU countries are permitted to carry out the indiscriminate transmission and retention of communications data only when there is a ‘serious threat to national security’, the bloc’s highest court ruled on Tuesday (6 October).” Read more.
‘If you want to make a country a colony, don’t send the tanks in. Just get the data out’
Francesca Bria @francesca_bria
(Yuval Noah) “Harari sat for an interview with Kathimerini in which he described in vivid colors the brave new world that is coming to us with an accelerated pace fueled by new technologies of digital connectivity, AI and biotechnology.”
Angela Davis on Abolishing the Police and Prisons
Mia Shah-Dand @MiaD
“Abolitionist strategies are especially critical because they teach us that our visions of the future can radically depart from what exists in the present.”
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