The AI Now Institute at New York University 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.
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Algorithmic Accountability for the Public Sector Report
The Ada Lovelace Institute (Ada), AI Now Institute (AI Now), and Open Government Partnership (OGP) have partnered to launch the first global study to analyse the initial wave of algorithmic accountability policy for the public sector. Read the executive summary for key findings and the full report for further detail on these findings and practical case studies of implemented policies.
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Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance
by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
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Suspect Development Systems: Databasing Marginality and Enforcing Discipline
By Rashida Richardson & Amba Kak
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Some Myths Versus Realities of Africa-China Tech Narratives
A guest post by Alexandria Williams.
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Suspect Development Systems: Databasing Marginality and Enforcing Discipline
By Rashida Richardson & Amba Kak
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Algorithmic Accountability for the Public Sector Report
by Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute and Open Government Partnership.
Learning from the first wave of policy implementation
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China in Global Tech Discourse
By Meredith Whittaker, Shazeda Ahmed, and Amba Kak
We're launching an essay series exploring the myths, realities, actors, and incentives underpinning dominant China tech and AI narratives.
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A Digital and Green Transition Series: Will Artificial Intelligence Foster or Hamper the Green New Deal?
By Dr. Theodora Dryer
Response to two of the European Commission’s key priorities for the upcoming years to “accelerate innovation and digitalisation” while at the same time “reaching climate neutrality and high environmental standards.”
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
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“This is about actively creating a technology that can be put to harmful uses rather than identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in existing technology,” Sarah Myers West, a researcher for the AI Now Institute, told Motherboard. “Researchers aren’t always going to be well-placed to make these assessments on their own. That’s...
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AI Now Thursdays: Ryan Moritz: Important Bird Opera
