Starting now! Community conversation on AI and white supremacy: us02web.zoom.us/j/84024803080 
Over the past decade "artificial intelligence" has emerged as a new branding for mass surveillance in response to the scrutiny of the Snowden disclosures, explains @yardenkatz.
Until we dismantle the carceral state, research naming the intersectional biases of AI will just help carceral tools more powerful.
Face recognition AI might be bad at identifying Black women, but do we really want police facial recognition to do that better?
Face recognition AI might be bad at identifying Black women, but do we really want police facial recognition to do that better?
Even "privacy" and "AI ethics" advocacy nonprofits aren't naming the broader prison-industrial complex, and they've bought into companies like Microsoft pulling PR stunts around AI regulation, helping them outmeneuver competitors.
Craig Roberts from @stoplapdspying: “If you believe the lies that science is objective and that the police state is on your side, then you will be willing to sacrifice all your human rights. We organize against these ideas.”
Craig from @stoplapdspying warns that we, the “other,” will be the guinea pigs AI is tested on, and the justice system will be one of the first places for this. White scientists are building tools to replace racist human bias with racist artificial bias.
Asked if AI could be liberatory, @yardenkatz warns that we shouldn’t think of AI as a “tool” but as a set of ideologies, developed through history. Asking for “decolonial AI” is like “decolonial capitalism.“
Corporations like Microsoft love love love theorists talking about “abolitionist AI” and “decolonial AI” because it helps legitimize their ideology without naming, for example, Microsoft supplying the Israeli police and destructive agri-businesses, explains @yardenkatz.
A lot of the nonprofits “organizing” tech workers or researching AI ethics might well be fronts for corporations. We don’t know who is funding them. And they have no community they’re accountable to or work within. They just traffic in writing reports and generating media buzz.
Khadijah @UpFromTheCracks: "Our communities need to understand how these technological systems are reproducing ideologies of surveillance and social control."
Khadijah @UpFromTheCracks on the algorithmic policing zones that Stop LAPD Spying uncovered: "If there was a brick and mortar wall around Skid Row, people would riot. But with these algorithms, we just don't see the wall." stoplapdspying.medium.com/the-algorithmi…
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