Companies at all stages on the AI development spectrum want to know where public policy on intelligent systems is headed. The work being produced by New York–based research institute AI Now offers a road map.
The institute delivers periodic topical reports and more general “state of play” annual reports that often point out where AI threatens rights and liberties and feature specific policy recommendations. The institute was founded by two well-connected women who know how tech-business and government works: Kate Crawford, who studies social change and media technologies, and Meredith Whittaker, founder of Google’s Open Research group.
AI Now’s work draws headlines and shapes public debate. In March 2019, the group’s report on predictive policing highlighted the skewed resource-allocation recommendations AI programs made based on “dirty data” collected through biased police practices. The report called out the AI technology vendors for doing unreliable work.
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