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Today's MUST WATCH: "Klein, Zuboff, and Browne will unpack the dangers of surveillance capitalism — and how we can rise to this crisis and create a fair and equitable future." @NaomiAKlein @shoshanazuboff and @wewatchwatchers in conversation! theintercept.com/2020/09/11/cor…
.@shoshanazuboff begins by pointing out record gains for big tech companies. A sobering reminder that the 'moment of reckoning' in The Discourse About Big Tech is not necessarily a real reckoning
Zuboff: The pandemic has been great for extracting user data. And civil unrest has also produced institutional data surveillance contracts.
I have problems with the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI's Policy Recommendations, and have a paper on my views forthcoming in @EurJRR. The preprint is now up on @lawarxiv at osf.io/preprints/lawa…. Here's a summary (short thread): 
I argue (with the help of a Discworld metaphor, cc @Jackstilgoe) that we don't need policy interventions to help us know when to use AI as much as when *not* to use it (and to frame the problem properly)
Where are the 'low level experts'? (thanks, @sedyst) '720 more professorial chairs in applied ethics' are recommended (!): but where will skills to organise to affect business models like #TechWontBuildIt and #GoogleWalkout come from? And where are affected communities?
I didn't make the decision to leave Clarifai lightly. I agonized over the debate, and tried to look at the issue from all sides. Here's my take on WHY we need to @BanKillerRobots once and for all. #Solidarity #TechWontBuildIt aclu.org/blog/national-…
@lee_grubbs that article is designed to make you worry about an arms race to justify more weapons manufacture. Instead, let’s work on an international ban through the UN. No one is saying don’t protect USA, we are saying aim for peace and use pressure to condemn this kind of war.
It’s an old argument @karanbhangui that “our enemies won’t” but the bans on chemical/biological weapons are holding up and we can achieve the same thing with these.
At the teach-in, "A.I. can't fix this: MIT, imperialism, and the future of A.I." #helloworld
Sally haslanger: we have to push back against plutocracy in the University. Who gets to decide the research agenda? Why should billionaires decide?
Elena sobrino: MIT never divested from apartheid South Africa, despite students organizing shantytowns and protests.
