The AI Now Institute aims to produce interdisciplinary research and public engagement to help ensure that AI systems are accountable to the communities and contexts in which they’re applied.
Our mission is to produce rigorous, interdisciplinary, and strategic research to inform public discourse around the social implications of AI.
Research
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[The Steep Cost of Capture | ACM Interactions](https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2021/the-steep-cost-of-capture)
The Steep Cost of Capture
By Meredith Whittaker
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Algorithmic Accountability for the Public Sector Report
by Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute and Open Government Partnership.
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Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance
by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Policy
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Suspect Development Systems: Databasing Marginality and Enforcing Discipline
By Rashida Richardson & Amba Kak
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Breaking the Lock: Accessing Public Records to Map Systems, Algorithms and Data
by Prof. Rashida Richardson, Amba Kak and Ian Head
FOIA Basics for Activists - Tech Requests
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[Water Justice and Technology Report](https://ainowinstitute.org/water-justice-technology.html)
Water Justice and Technology Report
AI Now Institute's Theodora Dryer and The Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice (CIEJ). The Covid-19 Crisis, Computational Resource Control, and water relief policy
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Democratize AI? How the proposed National AI Research Resource falls short
A submission by the AI Now Institute and Data & Society Research Institute
News
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Erin McElroy, Meredith Whittaker & Nicole E. Weber on how landlords, bosses, and schools' intrusions of surveillance technologies into the home extends the carceral state into domestic space.
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Smartphones, sensors and consumer habits reveal much about society. Too few people have a say in how these data are created and used.
Everyone should decide how their digital data are used — not just tech companies
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Amba Kak and Ben Green challenge the global convergence toward policies requiring human oversight of AI.
The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm
Events
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AI Now Thursdays: Ryan Moritz: Important Bird Opera
