Research Scientist @GoogleAI | AI & Global South | ridaqadri.net
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27 Apr 2021
Gojek drivers told me abt the ingenious apps they create to navigate life as a driver--their 'IT of the Road' is exactly the kind of disruptive tech startups are lauded for, yet when drivers innovate they get banned.
Many thx to the @motherboard team!
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13 Jun 2023
Honored to be part of extremely important community centered research identifying South Asian cultural limitations in AI-generated images led by @qadrida w/ @cephaloponderer @renee_m_shelby #FAccT23 in today’s 1:15 Values & Representation session!
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13 Apr 2022
.@marylgray welcomes scholar, designer, & activist @schock to the #MSRPodcast. Tune in as they explore tech design’s role in perpetuating structural inequality & how advocates & community groups are bringing people together for equitable & accountable AI: msft.it/6001w03SD
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8 Apr 2022
Perfect timing for this convo. Spoiler alert! My answer will be 'Ah, nope! Need private and public partnerships to fix things ASAP.' Friends, please share @primrconnect @PartnershipAI @ACM_Ethics @kathytpham @baxterkb @ruchowdh @ZiaKhanNYC @pervade_team @klinovakatya @BostonJoan
8 Apr 2022
Webinar on Digital Ethics: Can Corporate Ethical Review Boards Protect Us From Rogue Algorithms? With @caroguillaumin of @SocieteGenerale, @marylgray of @MSFTResearchCam, Kourosh Bahrami of @HenkelFrance, moderated by HR #HECprof Emeritus Michael Segalla ▶️hec.edu/en/news-room/webinar…
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Rida Qadri's talk for the IEET/AEC Future of Work project "The Worker in Future(s) of Work." Using the case of grassroots organization by mobility platform workers in Jakarta. @qadrida youtube.com/watch?v=0qkxlsm0…
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15 Mar 2022
Really looking forward to chopping it up w/the brilliant @ruchowdh @hypervisible & @geomblog on the ways firms can achieve Algo accountability & responsibility. Join us at the @mit_ide #SMSMIT22 led by @sinanaral. It's virtual, free, & will cover misinfo, algo transparency more
On 3/31 @MITSloan professor @mit_ide research lead @reneegosline will moderate an expert panel exploring ways organizations can prioritize #accountability #transparency insight on “human first” approaches to technology
Join us for The SMS@MIT
Tix: buff.ly/3MMYDBn
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21 Feb 2022
Qadri studies workers who are seizing the means of computation, reverse-engineering and repurposing the apps that are meant to keep them in bondage and setting themselves free. Her research on gig drivers in Jakarta is essential reading:
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21 Feb 2022
This is mutual aid, with code. It is every bit as innovative and disruptive as Uber or Amazon, but because it is done *by* workers, rather than *to* workers, it is not recognized as such. 7/
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21 Feb 2022
Big Tech's gospel of disruption promotes a sanitized & corporatized form of innovation--casting the tech company as the only legitimate actor of change. My piece in @WIRED on how this mythos strips away user agency & flattens our complex social world
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21 Feb 2022
@gleemie argues innovation is not an intrinsic category. Neither is disruption. There is a line created between disruption and fraud, disruption and destruction, disruption and illegality. Tech companies become the arbiters of that line.
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21 Feb 2022
As tech companies take away space from users to shape their own digital futures, clamping down on what @doctorow calls adversarial interoperability, the real promise of tech--its generativity--is lost. We are instead left with mere tools.
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23 Nov 2021
What happens when 'technical decisions' for ID databases encode social biases & normative judgements? For @WIRED I wrote abt @NadraPak Pakistan's Digital ID database design & the need to pay attention to seemingly banal tech choices of database engineers
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23 Nov 2021
This article asks if fixed databases can hold fluid concepts of identity & what it means to design for social realities where the technological and political coalesce? Thanks to @chengela, Zehra Hashmi and Ranjit Singh @datasociety and @jehangiramjad
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21 Oct 2021
A real treat talking to @tetisheri and @qadrida. Their work is absolutely crucial for understanding the globalized tech economy and the colonialist politics that permeate how even critical scholars and journos frame, study, and talk about these platforms and people.
21 Oct 2021
🚨110. Decolonial Ethic for Tech and Labor (ft. Noopur Raval, Rida Qadri)🚨
@tetisheri and @qadrida join us for a fantastic, in-depth discussion of their important research on platform economies and (de)colonial politics in the Global South. soundcloud.com/thismachineki…
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21 Oct 2021
This week @tetisheri joins @parismarx to discuss India’s gig economy with a focus on women who work for beauty and wellness services.
In this clip, Noopur explains how political conditions affect the way workers push back on the platforms.
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21 Oct 2021
🚨110. Decolonial Ethic for Tech and Labor (ft. Noopur Raval, Rida Qadri)🚨
@tetisheri and @qadrida join us for a fantastic, in-depth discussion of their important research on platform economies and (de)colonial politics in the Global South. soundcloud.com/thismachineki…
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31 Jul 2021
AI hinges on improving methods for observing human decisions to model them. Meaningful powerful AI will require understanding why and under what conditions different groups of people make the decisions that we can observe—and learning from decisions that people make offline.
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21 Jul 2021
We have been warning this would happen for like four years. Entire industries set up to do exactly this
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