Putting brakes on facial recognition & surveillance
How should we think about this super-convenient yet dystopian tech?
Machine employees in government
What does it mean if AI is doing the job of government employees?
Facebook deepfake ban techno-solution distraction
This week Facebook announced a new policy banning deepfake videos.
Predictions for AI in the 2020s
All predictions are wrong but some are useful. Hopefully these are useful!
Facebook "subsidizes" polarization
Facebook’s algorithms cause political polarization by creating “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles” that insulate people from opposing views about current events.
Why is HR so gullible?
This was the question asked this week by a Princeton comp-sci professor.
House of Beautiful Business
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, presented an AI Masterclass at the House of Beautiful Business.
Google and Health Data
Why the outcry about Google's gathering of personal health data? There’s no way of knowing whether this data will be used in unethical ways. Some of these risks are theoretical but the stakes are high. Right now, we do just have to trust them.
Apple Card and algorithm anger
How not to manage in the age of machine employees (and partner machine employees).
Facebook is an AI ethics fail
If you’re at all enmeshed in the tech press, the big issue for the last couple of weeks has been Facebook’s inability to get out of the huge hole it’s dug for itself around misuse of its platform, political ad targeting and lies.
AI manipulation will force us to rethink privacy
The gaming industry confronts an AI designed specifically to turn players into big spenders.