Building awareness of the risks of AI decisions: "drastically simplified models of the buzzing, blooming confusion that constitutes the real world"
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19 Nov 2020
We should use this tool to predict if someone is or will be a cop just by looking at their face!
17 Nov 2020
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Though it was largely discredited by the mid-1850s, physiognomy has been making a come-back in the form of machine learning models that aim to predict whether someone is a criminal, just by looking at their face.
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Your Algorithm Doesn't Know Me retweeted
8 Nov 2020
Stop.
@WIRED given the resounding scholarly rejection of this kind of dangerous and pseudoscientific ML research (thanks to people like @Abebab, @forcriticaltech, @annaeveryday, @luke_stark and many others) why are you still breathlessly platforming these baseless claims?
Being able to read body language is an essential human skill. Soon, it might be one for robots, too. Researchers have developed an algorithm that analyzes and guesses how you’re feeling purely by the way you walk: wired.trib.al/eUmHucR
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3 Nov 2020
"the ADCU’s contention is that Uber is using an overly broad definition of ‘fraud’ to undercut its obligations to workers’ rights by concealing performance-related dismals" #AIethics #Uber #employmentlaw
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2 Nov 2020
AI developers "represent the powerful and the elite, and while they may understand how to train a convolutional neural network, they are far removed from the contexts and communities in which their technology will be applied." - @mer__edith.
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2 Nov 2020
Follow @JeremiasPrassl for concise takes on AI in employment. Problem of worker surveillance is not new; but the tools that determine time, wages, safety, are evolving to create greater knowledge asymmetries between workers and companies.
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Your Algorithm Doesn't Know Me retweeted
27 Oct 2020
I just came across this 1981 “Worker’s Technology Bill of Rights” posted by @bentarnoff. How have we done in the 40 years since in meeting these aspirations?
@aral @Elibietti @veenadubal @FrankPasquale @EvanSelinger @BrettFrischmann @libshipwreck @MusicWorkers @sarahfrier
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Think of how algorithmic harms come to light. It’s academics (e.g. @jonathanmayer @random_walker), journalists (e.g. @JuliaAngwin), and lawyers (e.g. @kevindeliban) rolling up their sleeves and examining these systems. Threatening this research is about lowering accountability.
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23 Oct 2020
"The automated background check...cast a wide net, looking for negative information from criminal databases even in states where she had never lived and pulling in records for women whose middle names, races, and dates of birth didn’t match"
#AIEthics
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22 Oct 2020
.@Google 2000: Do no evil.
Google 2020: What *is* evil really?
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22 Oct 2020
The Home Office recently stopped using an algorithm to help decide visa applications after allegations that it contained “entrenched racism”.
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22 Oct 2020
"People are being sorted and graded, denied visas, benefits and more, all because of flawed algorithms.” - Martha Dark, @Foxglovelegal
21 Oct 2020
Politicians have made an algorithm to fix the housing crisis. It’s bad.
AI can't fix the social impacts of a poorly planned industry.
wired.co.uk/article/housing-…
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