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Joy Lisi Rankin at the United Nations Women’s “Counted and Visible” Conference

2019 Symposium

How Companies Should Answer The Call For Responsible AI

A recent report from the AI Now Institute revealed that 80% of AI professors, 85% of AI research staff at Facebook, and 90% of AI employees at Google are male.

Catholic leaders call for ethical guidelines around AI

Tech companies need binding, detailed policies that hold them accountable in addressing the many ethical concerns surrounding AI, says Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute at New York University.

AI Now Thursdays: Ryan Moritz: Important Bird Opera

Here’s What Happens When an Algorithm Determines Your Work Schedule

“Worse yet, corporate secrecy is a structural characteristic of the AI industry in general that undermines our ability to assess the full extent of how the technology is being used and hinders redress, oversight, and regulation.”

The Great Google Revolt

The discovery that their employer was working hand in hand with the Defense Department to bolster drone warfare “was a watershed moment,” said Meredith Whittaker, an A.I. researcher based in New York who led Google’s Open Research Group.

Imagining a post GDPR order: Panel at CPDP 2020

Bridging The Gender Gap In AI

The gap appears even more stark at the “FANG” companies—according to the AI Now Institute just 15% of AI research staff at Facebook and 10% at Google are women.

We’re Hiring Graduate Research Assistants

Announcing AI Now’s Data Genesis Program: Studying and demystifying training data

US lawmakers concerned by accuracy of facial recognition

Ms Whittaker said corporate interest should not be allowed to "race ahead" and incorporate this technology into their systems without safeguards.

The Technology 202: Facial recognition gets another look on Capitol Hill today from skeptical lawmakers

Expect a divided group: Whittaker will call for policymakers and businesses to halt all use of facial recognition in sensitive social situations and political contexts, according to a press release.

AI poses risks, but the White House says regulators shouldn’t “needlessly hamper” innovation

“It will take time to assess how effective these principles are in practice, and we will be watching closely,” said Rashida Richardson, the director of policy research at the AI Now Institute. “Establishing boundaries for the federal government and the private sector around AI technology will offer greater insight to those of us working in the accountability space.”

New York City couldn’t pry open its own black box algorithms. So now what?

But Rashida Richardson, the policy research director of AI Now, says that position isn’t nearly enough, as the role has neither the mandate nor the power to reveal what automated systems are in use.

Workers Need to Unionize to Protect Themselves From Algorithmic Bosses

A new report on the social implications of artificial intelligence from NYU’s A.I. Now Institute argues that people who work under algorithms in 2019—from Uber drivers to Amazon warehouse workers to even some white collar office workers who may not know that they’re being surveilled—have increasing cause for concern and collective action.

Make Your Job Application Robot-Proof

“Often a job candidate doesn’t even know a system is in use,” and employers aren’t required to disclose it, says Sarah Myers West, a researcher at the AI Now Institute, a New York University research group.

Researchers criticize AI software that predicts emotions

A prominent group of researchers alarmed by the harmful social effects of artificial intelligence called Thursday for a ban on automated analysis of facial expressions in hiring and other major decisions.