The MIT coalition for Palestine have detailed documentation of research projects directly funded by the Israeli Military:

"Since 2015, MIT has received over $11 million in authorized research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel"

mitsage.my.canva.site Facts.

If you're a journalist who covered AI doomer calls for regulation, now you must cover what is actually going on with AI regulation.

I don't make the rules.

Here are some starting points:
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- White House national R&D strategy for AI: whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda… WH blueprint for AI Bill of Rights
whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-o…

Now class, can anyone tell me why this might be a bad idea? Here is ChatGPT response to "List 10 potential problems with using synthetic AI generated 'users' to conduct user research" ...

In this paper, I will demonstrate how the Encanto is actually a surveillance state where the benevolent dictator Abuela deploys her kin as proxies to mete out displays of absolute force, magico-medical health care, total audio surveillance, & advanced infiltration tech (1/237) Siri, show me audio surveillance of an entire population, but make it cute

IRS rolling back their plans with ID.me! Now let's cancel their contracts with other federal and state agencies, and put legislation in place that will provide real oversight and accountability for algorithmic systems! More info: nytimes.com/2022/02/07/us/…

Interesting. Theme: a black woman and a white man

Extremely interesting paper "A Silicon Valley Love Triangle: Hiring Algorithms, Pseudo-Science, and the Quest for Auditability," by @mona_sloane, @MannyMoss, and @ruchowdh: arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape…

(h/t @jovialjoy) @mona_sloane @MannyMoss @ruchowdh @jovialjoy The authors propose a socio-technical matrix for assessing automated decision systems (ADS), moving beyond existing frameworks to include: tool/stage; goal; data; function; assumption; and epistemological roots.

Ex.: hiring systems (Hiretural, Codility, Pymetrics, Humantic).

I'm not at all 'anti-crypto.' I'm a big fan of cryptography. I am, however, anti- tax evasion, money laundering, ponzi schemes, multi-level marketing, and needless waste of energy. [1/n] I'm also anti- silver bulletism, anti-technosolutionism, and anti-convincing everyday people to invest their scarce capital in unregulated sectors where it's very easy for them to lose everything with no recourse. [2/n]

Crypto colonizers displacing Puerto Ricans, buying up the island with tax evasion money while launching ponzi recruitment schemes.
washingtonpost.com/technology/202… For the salty crypto bros in my mentions, please, tell me more about how this has nothing to do with crypto, it's Puerto Rican people's fault for living under an 'oppressive local government.' Most of u have zero understanding of PR's relationship w/USA. harvardpolitics.com/puerto-rico-co…

This is a BIG DEAL. A couple quick thoughts:

1) This moment is a win. It's good to celebrate wins in the struggle for justice in the tech space.

2) This win was made possible by the foundational work of Black women computer scientists like @jovialjoy, @rajiinio, @timnitGebru

https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/1455581988371505154

3) Their work provided crucial ammunition for civil liberties, racial justice, and human rights organizations and networks fighting against unconsented facial recognition technologies. Too many to list but @EFF @EPICprivacy @ACLU_Mass @Data4BlackLives @fightfortheftr @AJLUnited

Are you an AI auditor, researcher, or regulator? If so, @AJLUnited wants to hear from you! Your thoughts on barriers and best practices in AI auditing will help us shift the ecosystem towards equitable and accountable AI. Please take our survey here: deloittesurvey.deloitte.com/Community/se/3… & feel free to forward to anyone you know who is working on AI audits, Algorithmic Impact Assessments, or other evaluations of AI systems. Thank you!

"Sins of omission: Critical informatics perspectives on privacy in e-learning systems in higher education." By
Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, Catherine McGowan:

asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… Abstract: "The COVID-19 pandemic emptied classrooms across the globe and pushed administrators, students, educators, and parents into an uneasy alliance with online learning systems already committing serious privacy and intellectual property violations, and actively promoted.."

A tech policy recommendations round-up thread: please comment with links to Tech Policy recommendations that organizations have developed and shared for the incoming Biden-Harris administration. In particular, those w/ racial, gender, economic, disability justice lens. For example, the Civil Rights Privacy and Technology Table released these Principles: civilrightstable.org/principles/

You need new, transfeminist energy for 2021.

You should grab one of the last copies of the Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies!

#design #games #tech #trans #feministas

store.alliedmedia.org/products/the-o… The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies is a hands-on card deck designed to help us collectively envision and share ideas for transfeminist technologies from the future.

Did you know that AI has always been in bed with binary gender classification? The original Turing Test itself isn't a computer that can convince a person it's a human - it's a machine that can pass as a woman better than a man can. Like if you knew, RT if that's news to you ;)

https://twitter.com/schock/status/1344379751570534402

In "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950), Turing's 'Imitation Game:' "3 people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex." The object of the game is for C to determine which of A or B is man and which is woman.
academic.oup.com/mind/article/L…

Google just keeps firing all of its most ethical people, huh?

https://twitter.com/techworkersco/status/1334191695991361538?s=20

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

A brief thread on #ADA30 and the future of design: Disability justice is foundational to #designjustice. Ch. 2 of Design Justice begins with the disability activist slogan "Nothing about us without us." (Freely available here: design-justice.pubpub.org/pub/cfohnud7/r…) Figure 2.1, at the start of Ch.2, is the cover illustration for “Nothing About Us Without Us: Developing Innovative
Technologies For, By and With Disabled Persons” by David Werner, 1998,
dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/gl…

As a trans non-binary femme using HRT (estradiol) and as a person with two advanced degrees and 20 years of practice in study design, I feel the need to share a few words about this study. (1/n)

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1279759022112071680

First of all, after you look at the link that JK Rowling shared, please go look at the original study, "Occurrence of Acute Cardiovascular Events in Transgender Individuals Receiving Hormone Therapy," here ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

This is huge. The ACM is calling for an "immediate suspension of the current and future private and governmental use" of Facial Recognition technologies, for "both technical and ethical reasons."

acm.org/binaries/conte… For those outside of the space, the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.

I'm reading the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act that was just introduced into the Senate. This is a quick read, and does not represent the views of any organization.

Please @ me if you have a different take. Grab ur copy here: markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… On quick read: good. I'm looking for 5 things. 1. Are definitions of facial recognition and biometrics well crafted? 2. does it stop gov from using private vendors? 3. are the exceptions appropriate? 4. does it help people redress harms? & 5. what about state and local govs?