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Ethicsai - Posts from 2021


Ex-Uber driver takes legal action over ‘racist’ face-recognition software
11.01.2021
The Guardian recently published an article describing one Uber driver’s legal test case accusing the company of indirect race discrimination their use of facial recognition…

Facebook Apologizes After its AI Mislabels Video of Black Men as “Primates”
10.04.2021
Slate published an article detailing Facebook’s AI’s misidentification of Black men in a video as “primates.” Find the article here. Facebook’s topic recommendation that it…

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence
09.04.2021
In late August, AP News published a piece detailing Michael William’s wrongful arrest at the hand of machine learning-based gunshot detection technology, as well as…

Rewriting Dystopian Plotlines: It’s All in the Algorithm
08.06.2021
The cases read like dystopian novel plotlines: a man is randomly arrested for robbing a watch store he has just visited. Despite a woman’s qualifications,…

Senators seek limits on some facial-recognition use by police, energizing surveillance technology debate
07.03.2021
The Washington Post recently published an article detailing a recent bill introduced by Congress to combat the government purchase of data from surveillance technologies without…

AI Bias Could Put Women’s Lives At Risk – A Challenge For Regulators
06.11.2021
Carmen Neithammer published a piece in Forbes in response to a paper by the European Commission that challenged the EU’s position on AI recognition. Oftentimes,…

Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs
05.17.2021
MIT Technology Review recently published a story about an audit that discovered Facebook’s current advertising practice of withholding certain job opportunities from women regardless of…

How a Group of Community Advocates Beat Facial Recognition Surveillance in New Orleans
04.06.2021
Vice recently published an article detailing the successful efforts of a grassroots coalition called Eye on Surveillance in New Orleans to stop the use of…

Eliminating Bias in Osteoarthritis Treatment Using AI
03.15.2021
Meet Eleanor and Eve. They share a two-room unit at a retirement home. One afternoon, while playing a game of shuffleboard, Eleanor and Eve both…

What is an “algorithm”? It depends who you ask.
02.27.2021
Kristian Lum and Rumman Chowdhury recently published an article for MIT Technology Review on the definition of the word “algorithm” and its implications in policy…

A Tool to Find Out If Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
02.08.2021
The New York Times recently published a piece describing the troubling findings of Exposing.AI that indicate the extent to which personal photos have been used…

An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.
01.31.2021
Karen Hao recently published an article for MIT Technology Review on the grave implications of recent research finding computer vision AI to be sexist. Read…

Third Known Arrest From Faulty Facial Recognition with Nijeer Parks
01.11.2021
The New York Times recently published an article sharing the story of Nijeer Parks, who was falsely accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an…