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Countdown to Part 2 of our #AIEthics #BookChat Grab 🍷☕️😺🐶and join us at 11a PDT @OwenChurches @AICollaborative @bobstark @JBarbosaPR @ewlamy @starkbob @blakeleyhpayne @altrishaw @barbarannott @CPetersen_CS @K_DickinsonMD @JohnMaynardCPA @lawclrk5 Pls tag anyone I missed.

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As @Adrowitzer suggested, here are the books 📚we've discussed since January :) We're doing part 2 of "Automating Inequality" by Virginia Eubanks @PopTechWorks as we ran out of time last month.

It's time! :) Welcome to May #AIEthics #BookChat Here's a link to Part 1 of our discussion in April ⚡️ Please take a few minutes to review and I'll start posting the questions in this thread.
twitter.com/i/moments/1132…

Part 2: “Automating Inequality” by Virginia Eubanks who highlights how high tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. Pls use #AIEthics #BookChat in all your tweets. I'll post questions using Q1, Q2. Pls add new ones as Q8, Q9, respond using A1, A2 within the same thread.

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We covered this in part I. Any additional thoughts?
Q1 How familiar were you with the concept of “digital poorhouse” before you read this book? What other new concepts/terms did you discover? @stanleywaite1 @ewlamy @Adrowitzer @roxanasoi

Adding @jdelacruz_IoT @DrJDrooghaag and others as they join. Q1 is posted👆🏽#AIEthics #BookChat

#AIEthics #BookChatQ2 What do you think of author’s notion that attacks on welfare (poor) are a result of “panic, white economic elite response to militancy of the poor and working class“? @roxanasoi @Adrowitzer @ewlamy @stanleywaite1 @HeinzVHoenen @JBarbosaPR @DrJDrooghaag

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Q3 Why was Daniel’s privatization plan and automation of Indiana’s welfare program so disastrous? #AIEthics #BookChat @roxanasoi @Adrowitzer @ewlamy @stanleywaite1 @JBarbosaPR @jdelacruz_IoT

Q4. What are some ethical concerns with Vaithianthan’s AFST predictive model for predicting risk of harm to children? #AIEthics #BookChat @roxanasoi @Adrowitzer @ewlamy @stanleywaite1 @JBarbosaPR @jdelacruz_IoT

We're out of time but here's last one. Q5. When designing models for complex societal issues like predicting child abuse, what is more dangerous, a high false positive rate or high false negative rate? #AIEthics #BookChat @roxanasoi @Adrowitzer @ewlamy @stanleywaite1 @JBarbosaPR

And it's a wrap! Thank you so much @roxanasoi @Adrowitzer @ewlamy @stanleywaite1 @JBarbosaPR @RDub2 for a fantastic discussion. Our best one yet! LMK which book we should pick for June? I have published the May moments here => twitter.com/i/moments/1132… #AIEthics #BookChat

Please vote for our next #AIEthics #BookChat "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (twitter poll has char limit) or "Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms" or other @roxanasoi @Adrowitzer @ewlamy @stanleywaite1 @JBarbosaPR @RDub2