Category: News Article
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The Gig Workers Fighting Back Against the Algorithms
Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2022. In the following article, Karen Hao writes the fourth story in a 5 part series on artificial intelligence (AI) colonialism. Nadine Freischlad, an Indonesian-based journalist,…
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South Africa’s Private Surveillance Machine is Fueling a Digital Apartheid
Artificial Intelligence, Colonialism, Police Activity, Private Surveillance, South Africa, Surveillance, TrackingAuthor: Karen Hao and Heidi Swart; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2022. In the following article, Karen Hao writes the second story in a 5 part series on artificial intelligence (AI) colonialism. Heidi Swart,…
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This is How AI Bias Really Happens—and Why It’s So Hard to Fix
Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how over the past few months, its been documented how the vast majority of artificial intelligence’s (AI) applications today are based…
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DeepMind is asking how AI helped turn the internet into an echo chamber
Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) furthers the “filter bubble” online. Users tend to interact with content that they enjoy, which allows recommendation…
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A New Vision of Artificial Intelligence for the People
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Assimilation, Colonialism, Community Data, Data Collection, Maori Language, Natural Language Processing TechnologyAuthor: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2022. In the following article, Karen Hao writes the final story in a 5 part series on artificial intelligence (AI) colonialism. Parts 1 through 4 were…
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Deleting Unethical Data Sets Isn’t Good Enough
Artificial Intelligence, Data Maintenance, Data Scraping, Data Usage, MS-Celeb-1M, Unethical Data SetsAuthor: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article argues that deleting unethical data sets is not sufficient to be ethically responsible, and that “those working in [artificial intelligence (AI)] must…
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IBM’s Photo-Scraping Scandal Shows What a Weird Bubble AI Researchers Live In
Artificial Intelligence, Data Scraping, Facial Recognition Systems, Flickr, IBM, Instagram, New York Times, Public Data, Wall Street Journal, Web ScrapingAuthor: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how in March of 2019, NBC released a story with the headline “Facial recognition ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos…
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AI is Sending People to Jail — and Getting it Wrong
Crime Information, Facial Recognition Systems, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Policing, Predictive Modeling, Underrepresented IndividualsAuthor: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following resource is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how unethical and plain incorrect use of machine learning can severely impact underrepresented…
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Facebook’s Ad-Serving Algorithm Discriminates by Gender and Race
Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article describes how people may have seen personalized Facebook advertisements on their feed. As it turns out, that algorithm, based on machine learning,…