EUobserver recently published an article about the EU’s new AI Act. Find the full article here. The EU has been at the forefront of developing…
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Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Is Now in Public Defenders’ Hands
10.05.2022
The New York Times recently published an article about Clearview AI’s use to exonerate a public defendant. Find it here. In 2017, Andrew Grantt Conlyn…
Phones Know Who Went to an Abortion Clinic. Whom Will They Tell?
09.03.2022
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the impact of location data tracking on recent abortion bans across the country. Find it here….
Computer vision AI researchers resist ethical concerns
08.01.2022
Protocol.com recently published an article detailing the resistance to consider ethical concerns among computer scientists in the field of computer vision. Find the article here….
Google’s LaMDA AI and the question of AI sentience
07.03.2022
The notion of AI becoming sentient has long been fodder for science fiction movies and primarily speculative discussion about the risk and possibility of achieving…
Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India
06.17.2022
Vice recently published an article on the use of biometric data by law enforcement in India. Find it here. As the use of facial recognition…
Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist?
04.04.2022
The New York Times recently published an article on Google’s recent firing of two AI ethics experts and its grave implications. Find it here. After…
NJ.com: Facial recognition technology is a direct assault on privacy and civil liberties
03.11.2022
The ACLU of New Jersey is among a coalition of other organizations that signed an article on NJ.com detailing their opinion on why facial recognition…
IRS Cancels Plans to Use ID.me Over Privacy and Accuracy Concerns
02.07.2022
The IRS today ceased its plans to require citizens to use ID.me, a facial recognition service, to access their tax records following noted reconsideration from…
Fixing algorithmic bias grows more necessary as companies face losses because of AI bias
01.15.2022
As more leading tech companies develop AI technology used in fields ranging from policing to healthcare, the biases detected in their products are not only…
South Korea Is Giving Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers
12.09.2021
Vice recently published an article describing the handing over of biometric data of travelers that pass through South Korean airports from the Ministry of Justice…
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…
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…
How to Make Artificial Intelligence Less Biased
12.16.2020
The Wall Street Journal published an article about the various approaches that have been taken to eliminate bias in artificial intelligence. Find it here. This…
The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research
11.20.2020
A recent Nature survey asked researchers their thoughts on ethical issues surrounding facial recognition studies. The survey follows much discourse in the facial recognition research…
AI experts say research into algorithms that claim to predict criminality must end
09.02.2020
The Verge recently published an article on the call to stop research into algorithms that aim to predict criminality. Find it here. The Coalition for…
Should A Council of Citizens Regulate Algorithms?
06.25.2020
Dr. Federica Carugati wrote this fascinating piece for Wired, suggesting that the key to making an AI-driven future equitable is to take some ideas from…
What Does Fairness in AI Mean?
03.03.2020
Forbes recently published an article on the complex definition of fairness in the context of AI. Find it here. When considering how to define and…
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
01.25.2020
The New York Times recently published a piece on the start-up Clearview AI. Find it here. Clearview AI, founded by Australian software developer Hoan Ton-That…
The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools
11.14.2019
Wired published an article on the growing use of facial recognition software in schools and its potential implications. Find it here. The use of facial…
How AI changed organ donation in the US
09.30.2019
Quartz published an article surrounding the role of AI in the change of the organ donation process. Find it here. Artificial intelligence algorithms have greatly…