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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…

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…

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….

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….

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…

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, the controversial facial recognition company that trains its algorithm with some 20 billion photos scraped from the internet (including websites such as Facebook…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Detroit Free Press wrote about the story of Michael Oliver, who was mistakenly arrested due to the police’s use of facial recognition technology. Find the…