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Today we launch the AI Now 2018 Report.
It’s been a dramatic year in AI, and more accountability is urgently needed. We share 10 recommendations for industry, governments & academia. Read them here: medium.com/@AINowInstitut…
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The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
- Today we officially launch the @AINowInstitute at NYU! Humbled to be the first university research institute focused on the social implications of AI, and thrilled to join so many others working the effort to make AI safe, fair, and accountable. ainowinstitute.org
- 📢Call for Submissions/Project Launch alert! @tetisheri, @ambaonadventure and AI Now are thrilled to launch ‘A New AI Lexicon’ – inviting critical perspectives + new frameworks currently absent from the Western, corporate-dominated AI Ethics discourse. A thread 🧵:
- “Facial recognition technology is disproportionately deployed by those in power to surveil, oppress and police Black and Brown communities, with few guardrails in place to curtail its oppressive and biased use.” AI Now’s @mer__edith tells @OversightDems during her oral testimony
- 🚨NEW REPORT surveys the state of compute, a core dependency in building large-scale AI. We review the hardware, software, and infrastructure needed for AI––and how the government can regulate for competition rather than concentration. ainowinstitute.org/publication/po…
- Today we launched AI Now’s 2023 Landscape Report. In it, we put forth an actionable policy strategy to confront concentration of power in the tech industry. Read more: ainowinstitute.org/2023-landscape
- Today we release our full report on Algorithmic Impact Assessments, a framework for accountability and oversight of AI + algorithmic decision making in public agencies. ainowinstitute.org/aiareport2018.… #NYCalgorithms
- Replying to @AINowInstitute“We’re gonna give you a tour of what happened this year” says @katecrawford, presenting visualization of data breaches from Cambridge Analytics to Facebook, organizing against Amazon’s Rekognition & Google’s Maven, tool supporting ICE from Palantir, & more.
- There’s a real danger in developing AI policy behind closed doors where industry outnumbers civil rights orgs, unions & critical thinkers.
- 📢NEW: @AINowInstitute, @AdaLovelaceInst and @opengovpart partnered on the first global study of the regulations and policy tools governing the use of algorithms in the public sector. ainowinstitute.org/pages/algorith… (Thread)
- We are delighted to announce that Co-founder Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) will be leading the Institute as AI Now's newly appointed Faculty Director, alongside Managing Director Mariah Peebles (@MariahPeebles).
- *New research* It's time to fix the diversity crisis in AI, & make the connection between workplace discrimination & AI bias. 18% of authors at major AI conferences are women, more than 80% of AI professors are men, & it's much worse for people of color. ainowinstitute.org/discriminating…
- New AI Now research paper: “DIRTY DATA, BAD PREDICTIONS.” First study of its kind to reveal how predictive policing platforms are influenced by data gathered from illegal and discriminatory police practices. By Rashida Richardson @Lawgeek @katecrawford papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
- AI industrial policies increasingly shape the relationship of govts to the AI industry, committing public $ to R&D and procurement. Today, we publish “AI Nationalism(s)”: an essay collection surveying this consequential wave of global policymaking: ainowinstitute.org/ai-nationalisms 1/🧵