NEW EPISODE ALERT!!! Tune in at 8 PM EST for Episode 9 of Algorithms of Empire, co-hosted by the Clay-Gilmore Institute, Wise the Dome TV, the Centre for Ethics, and the Algorithmic Bias Project at the University of Toronto. In this episode, we are in conversation with Adam Mahoney and Madeline Thigpen about their recent article for Capital B News on the rise of AI-enabled surveillance of Black communities in Atlanta and the rise of Cop City. Before AI, police pulled footage when they already suspected you. AI flips it: scan everyone, generate the suspicion. That's not a bug to debias away; the biased judgments of criminality follow from the design and operational deployment of the technology. In Atlanta, that looks like 60,000 networked cameras searchable by plain language, plate readers feeding a database shared with ~2,000 agencies, and federal task forces tapping in for immigration enforcement. The cameras cluster thickest in Black neighborhoods — and facial recognition misreads Black faces at many times the rate of white ones. When a system that's wrong that often is built to generate suspicion, the people who pay for it are already the most watched. As our guests show, mass surveillance and militarized police control of Black people is not new. The same ground that Cop City is being built on — Weelaunee forest, later the Atlanta Prison Farm — has functioned as a laboratory for the management and control of Black and Indigenous people for generations. AI tools are enhancing older pre-emptive approaches to policing non-white populations. Listen in at 2000/8 PM EST: youtu.be/UK_3ZFaaMho #AIsurveillance #PredictivePolicing #CopCity #AlgorithmsOfEmpire

NEW EPISODE ALERT!! The US claims to have hit 1,000 targets in Iran in the first 24 hours of the conflict with the help of AI tools. But does that lessen the need for human judgment in war? The Algorithms of Empire Podcast had the privilege to sit down with Professor Jon Lindsay to discuss his article on this topic. We get into: · automation bias in targeting · the reality of AI systems vs. the myths about what AI can do · cutting-edge deployments of robotics and the AI targeting systems in Ukraine and Gaza · Lavender, Gospel & real-world military AI · why AI might actually make humans more important in war Tune in at 5:30PM: youtu.be/wVS1CEH5FT4 If you are interested in algorithmic bias, autonomous weapons, or real-world military AI—this one’s for you. #MilitaryAI #AlgorithmicBias #AutonomousWeapons #AIEthics #AlgorithmsofEmpire

NEW EPISODE ALERT: Algorithms of Empire x Clay-Gilmore Institute of Philosophy, Technology, and Counterinsurgency and the Algorithmic Bias Project in Canada at @UofT Tune in at 12:30 EST: youtu.be/dMZUelvgogY Me and @RakeemShabazz had the pleasure of sitting down with postdoctoral researcher Dr. Maria Lungu to discuss the promise & peril of predictive policing. From "Minority Report" fears to real-world failures in places like Chicago & Pasco County, is there a path to accountable AI? We engage this question and explore the conversation sparked by this @ConversationUS piece: theconversation.com/predicti… #PredictivePolicing #AI #AlgorithmsOfEmpire #UofT #CGIPTC #ABCProject

Tap in at 5!!! 🚨 EP 2 of #AlgorithmsOfEmpire is out at 5 pm tonight!. Dr. Clay-Gilmore and I discuss the final takeaways from Dr. Sarah Shoker’s “Military-Aged Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare,” plus the launch of the Clay-Gilmore Institute’s first newsletter & digital exhibition. @eihtbeezy Listen to the conversation here: youtu.be/BCzYhbUkiPI?si=QYqB… Explore the CG-IPTC's visualizations and the newsletter: cg-iptc.org

🚨 EP 2 of #AlgorithmsOfEmpire is out at 5 pm tonight!. @RakeemShabazz and I discuss the final takeaways from Dr. Sarah Shoker’s “Military-Aged Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare” the launch of the Clay-Gilmore Institute’s first newsletter & digital exhibition. Listen to the conversation here: youtu.be/BCzYhbUkiPI?si=QYqB… Explore the CG-IPTC's visualizations and the newsletter: cg-iptc.org #DroneWarfare #Counterinsurgency #BlackMaleStudies #BlackPhilosophy #AlgorithmsOfEmpire #ClayGilmoreInstitute