Thread by @emilymbender

This piece is stunning: stunningly beautifully written, stunningly painful, and stunningly damning of family policing, of the lack of protections against data collection in our country, & of the mindset of tech solutionism that attempts to remove "failable" humans decision makers

https://twitter.com/UpFromTheCracks/status/1561380636216045568

.@UpFromTheCracks 's essay is both a powerful call for the immediate end of family policing and an extremely pointed case study in so many aspects of what gets called #AIethics:

1. What are the potentials for harm from algorithmic decision making?

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2. The absolutely essential effects of lived experience and positionality to understanding those harms.
3. The ways in which data collection sets up future harms.

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4. The ways in which the questions asked determine the possible answers/outcomes.
5. Again, the absolutely essential effects of lived experience and positionality to understanding the harms of those outcomes.

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I could go on, but in short: This is required reading for anyone working anywhere near #AIethics, algorithmic decision making, data protection, and/or child "welfare" (aka family policing).

logicmag.io/home/birthing-…