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Ifeoma Ozoma, Veena Dubal, Meredith Whittaker from the AI Now Institute and John Tye from Whistleblower Aid for a tech-worker focused webinar, covering the basics of safe whistleblowing and your rights as a worker.
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Hariri Institute for Computing / March 05, 2021
Panel on AI, Inequality, and Big Tech, featuring Timnit Gebru, Sabelo Mhlambi and Meredith Whittaker
National Science Policy Symposium / November 14, 2020
Sarah Myers West spoke together with Nicol Turner-Lee, and Tyrone Grandison. Technology is an integral part of our everyday lives through broad-band internet usage, protection of cyber-security security, or the usage of artifical intelligence (AI) to mimic human-operations. Historically, technology has perpetuated racial discrimination with biases in algorthims used in...
Indiana University / October 30, 2020
Sarah Myers West gave a colloquium talk about discrimination in artificial intelligence for Indiana University's Informatics Colloquium. The artificial intelligence industry is in the midst of a crisis in diversity and inclusion: while the representation of women in computer science recently fell below levels in the 1960s, inclusion across lines...
Royal Holloway University of London Information Security Group / July 30, 2020
Sarah Myers West presented on a qualitative research project examining how digital activists navigate risks posed to them in online environments.
New York City, NY / March 07, 2020
BetaNYC hosts NYC School of Data 2020 at CUNY School of Law in Queens. This event, held on International Open Data Day 2020, concludes the fourth annual NYC Open Data Week. NYC School of data is a community driven conference with a focus on open data, civic technology, and service...
New York City, USA / March 03, 2020
Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin, Research Lead at AI Now Institute, recently spoke about bias, algorithmic technologies and surveillance at the UN's "Counted and Visible" Conference.
AI Now Institute / February 27, 2020
Important Bird Opera (music, photographs, and film by Ryan Moritz with a libretto by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb) is an experimental opera in three acts about birds, migration, climate crisis, and rewilding. The piece began as a research project and experiment in nature photography, sound documentary, and the twentieth-century tone...
Brussels, Belgium / February 20, 2020
Our Executive Director (Former) Andrea Nill Sánchez testified before the European Parliament on the risks and harms associated with predictive policing systems.
Brussels, Belgium / February 18, 2020
Amba Kak presented on a panel on the future of data protection law and algorithmic accountability at CPDP 2020
Washington D.C. / January 15, 2020
Learn more about the steps Congress should take to mitigate the harmful effects of AI and facial recognition tech.
AI Now Institute / December 16, 2019
AI Now hosted a gathering of NYC-area attorneys of color in honor of the MLK holiday.
New York, NY / December 07, 2019
AI Now and several other organizations partnered with NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) to host a Community forum on algorithmic bias in connection with the publication of Confronting Black Boxes: A Shadow Report on the New York City Automated Decision System Task Force.
AI Now Institute / November 22, 2019
AI Now Fridays creates space for discussion, exploration, and insight. Each event will feature a short talk, followed by casual conversation. Held on the last Friday of every month, this edition featured artists Michelle Dizon and Viet Le.
Berlin, Germany / November 14, 2019
The workshop, co-hosted with the Digital Freedom Fund in Berlin, brought together European and North American litigators with experience in cases at the intersection of automated/algorithmic decision-making and human rights. The aim of the workshop was to facilitate the sharing of lessons learned from already-existing cases, while helping those at...
Milan, Italy / October 26, 2019
The Training Humans Symposium engaged with the themes of Training Humans, the first major photography exhibition devoted to training images: the collections of photos used by scientists to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems in how to “see” and categorize the world. Featuring Prof. Stephanie Dick, Prof. eden Medina, and Prof....
NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY / October 02, 2019
The fourth annual AI Now Symposium provided behind-the-scenes insights from those at the frontlines of the growing pushback against harmful AI. Our program featured leading lawyers, organizers, scholars, and tech workers, all of whom have engaged creative strategies to combat exploitative AI systems across a wide range of contexts, from...
Washington, D.C. / September 28, 2019
U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public symposium on human rights and digital technologies
AI Now Institute / September 12, 2019
In their new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019). Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of...
AI Now Institute / September 09, 2019
We hosted a talk by Māui Hudson, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato, titled Developing an Indigenous Data Science Platform. Presented in collaboration with NYU Native Studies Forum; NYU Department of Anthropology; NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History; and Local...
AI Now Institute / August 22, 2019
This workshop convened both practitioners from the more traditional software security world, and those developing AI systems, researchers studying AI security and vulnerability, and researchers examining the social and ethical implications of AI. AI systems can be exploited by a variety of triggers, from outright adversarial attacks, to bugs, to...
AI Now Institute / July 18, 2019
AI is in the news a lot today - and most of it is not good. From tools that classify people by race and gender to systems that try to “predict” future crimes based on racist police data sets, AI-driven systems seem to be classifying, dividing, and controlling people more...
AI Now Institute / June 28, 2019
AI Now Fridays creates space for discussion, exploration, and insight. Each event will feature a short talk, followed by casual conversation. Held on the last Friday of every month, this edition featured scholar and activist Joan Greenbaum.
New York City, USA / June 21, 2019
This workshop, co-hosted with NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law, brought together folks focused on litigating algorithmic decision-making in various areas of the law (from employment to social benefits to criminal justice) to discuss strategy, best practices, and exchange ideas about experiences and strategic thinking around litigation...
AI Now Institute / June 05, 2019
TPHH is a gathering of folks working at the intersection of technology, law and policy. From advocates to policymakers, academics, journalists, and everything in between.
AI Now Institute / May 31, 2019
AI Now's Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker will kick off this inaugural AI Now Friday, discussing AI Now's history, their recent work, and some of the challenges they see on the horizon.
AI Now Institute / April 19, 2019
Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is a book about the risk each social media platform faces and needs to respond. It centers on the idea that the different functions and services of social media are not built for the sake of connecting people but to prevent...
AI Now Institute / March 28, 2019
This workshop brought together a small group of experts from academia, industry and civil society to start a conversation on issues around the intersection of disability, bias, and AI, and to identify areas where more research is urgently needed. AI systems are proliferating and being deployed across core social institutions,...
NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY / October 16, 2018
The AI Now 2018 Symposium addressed the intersection of AI, ethics, organizing, and accountability–examining the landmark events of the past year that have brought these topics squarely into focus. What can we learn from them and where is there more work to be done?
Washington D.C., USA / July 11, 2018
Policy director Rashida Richardson discusses regulation of AI and its use in government on a panel alongside two members of congress and the head of the IT Industry Council.
Berlin, Germany / July 03, 2018
Our roundtable on Machine Learning, Inequality and Bias, co-hosted in Berlin with the Robert Bosch Academy, gathered researchers and policymakers from across Europe to address issues of bias, discrimination, and fairness in machine learning and related technologies.
New York, NY / June 22, 2018
AI Now partnered with NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to host a first of its kind workshop that examined current United States courtroom litigation where the use of algorithms by government was central to the rights and liberties at issue in...
New York, NY / February 21, 2018
Recently, the New York City Council passed the first general algorithmic-accountability legislation in the country. At the same time, the European Union has been moving forward on its own data accountability regime per the new General Data Protection Regulation. But what does it mean to hold a machine accountable? With...
New York, NY / January 25, 2018
The Data Genesis Working Group convenes experts from across industry and academia to examine the mechanics of dataset provenance and maintenance.
New York, NY / September 15, 2017
Our workshop on Immigration, Data, and Automation in the Trump Era, co-hosted with the Brennan Center for Justice and the Center for Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, focused on the Trump Administration’s use of data harvesting, predictive analytics, and machine learning to target immigrant communities.
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA / July 10, 2017
The second annual AI Now Symposium deepened the examination of the near-term social and economic implications of AI begun during the first Symposium, addressing four key issues in relation to AI: Rights and Liberties, Labor and Automation, Bias and Inclusion, and Ethics and Governance. These themes built on the work...
NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY / July 07, 2016
In July of 2016, Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker co-chaired the first AI Now Symposium in collaboration with the Obama White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council. The event brought together leading experts and members of the public to discuss the near-term social and...
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