Our Ideas
We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
Can AI help us think better now?
Humans think in terms of 1,2,3,4 lots and lots, while machines think in billions.
The Black Mirror of Clearview AI
If Clearview is normalized, we're not who we think (or hope) we are.
Ding-Dong, It's Surveillance!
Why we need to keep talking about Ring and "plug-in surveillance."
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.
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.
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.
With Rekognition, Amazon could squander trust
Facial recognition is facing a backlash and Amazon is an easy target.
Facebook's AI intends to break first, fix later
Facebook's AI chief scientist oversimplifies humans. Again.