The lack of diversity in AI workplaces and biased technologies are deeply interconnected issues. This pilot study represents the first stage of a multi-year project examining the intersection of gender, race, and power in AI.

Scholars of diverse gender and racial backgrounds have been sounding the alarm about inequity and discrimination in artificial intelligence for decades. Read the work that has inspired us.

AI Now is seeking an exceptional Executive Assistant to provide administrative and project management support to one of the Co-Founders and Co-Directors of the Institute.

See our chart prepared in advance of the New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force Public Forums, including known use cases in New York City as well as use cases in other jurisdictions.

AI Now and NYC advocates and researchers sent a letter to the New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force stressing the need for meaningful and inclusive public engagement.

AI Now joins other advocates in providing comments on the California Judicial Council's rulemaking regarding SB10, a law that replaces the state's cash bail system with a pre-trial risk assessment

Building on AI Now’s 2016 and 2017 reports, this year’s report contends with the central problem of accountability in AI, and provides 10 practical recommendations that can help create frameworks capable of governing these powerful technologies.

The AI Now Institute is engaged in a research program on gender, race, and power in AI. In light of the growing movement working to combat inequality and abuse of power in tech and beyond, we published a preview of our initial findings.

Videos from the AI Now 2018 Symposium on Ethics, Organizing, and Accountability are now live on our website and YouTube channel. Watch and share!

Read opening remarks from our Symposium on Ethics, Organizing, and Accountability, by AI Now Institute co-founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker.

The toolkit includes a breakdown of key concepts and questions, an overview of existing research, summaries of algorithmic systems currently used in government, and guidances on advocacy strategies to identify and interrogate the use of these systems.

AI Now teamed up with NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to conduct a deep examination of current United States courtroom litigation where the use of algorithms by government was central to the rights and liberties at issue ...

This year’s program will address the intersection of AI, ethics, organizing, and accountability – with speakers including Philip Alston, Sherrilyn Ifill, Lucy Suchman, Virginia Eubanks, Kevin De Liban, Vincent Southerland, Timnit Gebru, Nicole Ozer, and Marisa Franco.

Figuring out how to make government of Automated Decisions fair and equitable must involve community voices. Rashida Richardson joins other NYC advocates in sharing their recommendations to the NYC ADS Task Force.

We’re hiring 2 full-time team members to help us conduct fundamental research.

Following our recommendations to the NYC Algorithmic Accountability task force, the AIA report provides a framework to help public agencies and the people they serve monitor and understand AI and algorithmic decision-making systems. This is an important step toward ensuring th...