Europe throws down gauntlet on AI with new rulebook
These are signs that the U.S. is entering a new era of regulation, said Meredith Whittaker of the AI Now Institute at New York University. "It remains to be seen how they use that power, but we are seeing at least in that agency a turn to a much more offensive stance for Big Tech," said Whittaker.
Politico
Apr 21, 2021
U.S. Lawmakers Pressure DOJ Over Funding of Predictive Policing Tools
The lawmakers pointed to a 2019 study from New York University School of Law and NYU’s AI Now Institute which discovered predictive policing systems being trained on what the researchers call "dirty data," or data derived from "corrupt, biased, and unlawful practices."...
Gizmodo
Apr 15, 2021
Video – Whistleblower Aid & AI Now: How Tech Workers Can Blow the Whistle Workshop
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.
Mar 25, 2021
Keeping an Eye on Landlord Tech
The landlord tech industry, while alive and well prior to COVID-19, has ramped up in the past year to develop new ways to accumulate wealth at the expense of tenants.
Mar 25, 2021
Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech
“If anything, research and investigative reporting over the last few years have shown that sensitive personal information is particularly dangerous when in the hands of state entities, especially given the wide ambit of their possible use by state actors.”
The Guardian
Mar 3, 2021
China’s Big Tech clampdown: Why some businesses stand to benefit
“I’m not surprised that the pendulum swung one way and there was all this room for experimentation and now it’s swinging back the other way and you actually can’t do these things,” said Shazeda Ahmed, a visiting researcher at New York University’s AI Now Institute who has extensively studied the relationships between China’s tech industry and the local, provincial and central government.
Al Jazeera
Jan 26, 2021
Twitter probes alleged racial bias in image cropping feature
"This is another in a long and weary litany of examples that show automated systems encoding racism, misogyny and histories of discrimination."
Reuters
Sep 22, 2020
Questions swirl about possible racial bias in Twitter
Sarah Myers West, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s AI Now Institute, told CNBC: “Algorithmic discrimination is a reflection of larger patterns of social inequality … it’s about much more than just bias on the part of engineers or even bias in datasets, and will require more than a shallow understanding or set of fixes.”
CNBC
Sep 21, 2020
Fake Data Could Help Solve Machine Learning’s Bias Problem—if We Let It
“That process of creating a synthetic data set, depending on what you’re extrapolating from and how you’re doing that, can actually exacerbate the biases,” says Deb Raji, a technology fellow at the AI Now Institute.
Slate
Sep 17, 2020
‘Encoding the same biases’: Artificial intelligence’s limitations in coronavirus response
"We were seeing AI being used extensively before Covid-19, and during Covid-19 you're seeing an increase in the use of some types of tools," noted Meredith Whittaker, a distinguished research scientist at New York University in the US and co-founder of AI Now Institute, which carries out research examining the social implications of AI.
Horizon
Sep 7, 2020
AI Weekly: A biometric surveillance state is not inevitable, says AI Now Institute
In a new report called “Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Urgent Questions,” the AI Now Institute says regulation advocates are beginning to believe a biometric surveillance state is not inevitable.
VentureBeat
Sep 4, 2020
Property tech companies are helping landlords spy on residents, collect their data, and even evict them. Critics are calling it an invasion of privacy that could reinforce inequality.
"It clearly seems to be a racist way of saying: 'Look through your tenants who you don't want to live here and replace them with tenants who you do,'" Erin McElroy, a researcher at the AI Now Institute and cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, told Business Insider.
Business Insider
Sep 3, 2020
All Is Fair In Mortgage Lending And Fintech?
As Sarah Myers West, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s AI Now Institute explained to CBS News, “We turn to machine learning in the hopes that they'll be more objective, but really what they're doing is reflecting and amplifying historical patterns of discrimination and often in ways that are harder to see.”
Forbes
Aug 28, 2020
Skewed Grading Algorithms Fuel Backlash Beyond the Classroom
Inioluwa Deborah Raji, a fellow at NYU’s AI Now Institute, which works on algorithmic fairness, says people reaching for a technical solution often embrace statistical formulas too tightly. Even well-supported pushback is perceived as highlighting a need for small fixes, rather than reconsidering whether the system is fit for the purpose.
Wired
Aug 19, 2020
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
Police like the idea of tools that give them a heads-up and allow them to intervene early because they think it keeps crime rates down, says Rashida Richardson, director of policy research at the AI Now Institute.
MIT Technology Review
Jul 17, 2020
AI gatekeepers are taking baby steps toward raising ethical standards
“The research community is beginning to acknowledge that we have some level of responsibility for how these systems are used,” says Inioluwa Raji, a tech fellow at NYU’s AI Now Institute.
Quartz
Jun 26, 2020
Big Tech juggles ethical pledges on facial recognition with corporate interests
"It shows that organizing and socially informed research works," said Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute, which researches the social implications of artificial intelligence. "But do I think the companies have really had a change of heart and will work to dismantle racist oppressive systems? No."
NBC News
Jun 22, 2020
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.
Forbes
Feb 28, 2020
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