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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AI tools fail to reduce recruitment bias – study
11.04.2022
BBC News recently published an article on a Cambridge study about the use of AI in job recruitment. Find the article (and study) here. Similar…
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…
Clearview AI Under Fire from UK
05.28.2022
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that trains its algorithm with some 20 billion photos scraped from the internet (including websites such as Facebook…
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…
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…
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…
Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
10.28.2020
The Wall Street Journal wrote about recent developments in a research project from NYU involving Facebook. The article can be found here. Notably, Facebook is…
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…