AI Now’s uniquely interdisciplinary research agenda is organized around a set of four core themes: rights and liberties, labor, bias and inclusion, and infrastructure.
Our work ranges from analyzing how “dirty data” impacts predictive systems to examining how discrimination and inequality in the AI sector are replicated in AI technology, and much more.
The Covid-19 Crisis, Computational Resource Control, and water relief policy
By Meredith Whittaker
This is a perilous moment. Private computational systems marketed as AI are threading through our public life and institutions, concentrating industrial power, compounding marginalization, and quietly shaping access to resources and information.
by Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute and Open Government Partnership.
Learning from the first wave of policy implementation
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by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
"Counterpoints" brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance struggles from across the SF Bay Area and act as a roadmap to counter-hegemonic knowledge making and activism.
By Rashida Richardson & Amba Kak
This piece provides a summary overview of our new article, forthcoming in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. This article received the Reidenberg-Kerr Award for best paper by pre-tenured scholars at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2021.
A guest post by Alexandria Williams.
Alexandria Williams writes about her insider experience working for a Chinese tech firm and conducting on-the-ground reporting about Chinese tech in Africa.
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.
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.”
A guest post by Lucy Suchman
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) released its Final Report and Recommendations. The Commission’s recommendations rest upon a set of unexamined, and highly questionable, assumptions.
The AI Now Institute, Ada Lovelace Institute, and the Open Government Partnership (OGP) are partnering to launch the first global study evaluating this initial wave of algorithmic accountability policy.
2020 has been a year of hard truths and tragedy, as interlocking crises put the failures, inadequacies, and structural limitations of our core institutions in the spotlight.
Gina Barba with Erin McElroy
by Sarah Myers West
In this article, Sarah Myers West outlines a feminist critique of extant methods of dealing with algorithmic discrimination.
by Joy Lisi Rankin
The Gender, Race, and Power in AI Program looks to past and current social, political, and economic justice movements for paths forward.
This post reflects on and excerpts from our most recent report, Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Urgent Questions.
Amid heightened public scrutiny, interest in regulating biometric technologies like face and voice recognition has grown significantly across the globe, driven by community advocacy and research.
by Erin McElroy, Meredith Whittaker, Genevieve Fried
Excerpt from a piece we wrote in the Boston Review on how property technology (proptech) is leading to new forms of housing injustice in ways that increase the power of landlords and further disempower tenants and those seeking shelter.
How is this persistent strain of reactionary politics currently manifesting within the tech industry? What do the views held by these AI founders suggest about the technologies they are building? And — most importantly — what should we do about it?
The (re)makings of austerity, disaster capitalism, and the no return to normal
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
From CPP protesting the Vietnam War to Google employees walking out over sexual harassment, theres a rich history of tech workers organizing. Read Joan Greenbaum's latest essay on the radical history of resistance in the tech industry.
Atlantic Plaza Towers tenants launched a campaign to halt facial recognition from being installed in their building and won! Tranae’ Moran, one of the lead organizers, writes about this campaign & why a moratorium on facial recognition is needed.
Read our annual report
A Shadow Report of the New York City Automated Decision System Task Force
Algorithmic bias builds on long patterns of historical discrimination. And the same communities are hit the hardest
We hosted scholars and advocates working at the intersection of disability, bias, and AI. Our report draws on that workshop and looks at what disability studies and activism can tell us about the risks and possibilities of AI.
Read our latest report
How they’re connected and what we can do about it
Opening remarks from our 2019 Symposium on the growing pushback against harmful AI
Litigating Algorithms 2019 U.S. Report
New Challenges to Government Use of Algorithmic Decision Systems
A Guide for Students
A European Parliament commissioned report on policy options for the governance of algorithmic technologies
Read our report on the state of AI
Outlining a New AI Research Agenda
A YEAR IN REVIEW
For advocates interested in understanding government use of algorithmic systems
Challenging Government Use of Algorithmic Decision Systems
New report offering a practical framework for AI accountability in public agencies
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning: Stockholm, Sweden
AI Now’s initial recommendations for automation accountability in NYC
With key recommendations for the field of artificial intelligence
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