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Talks about libraries, technology, and the Web by Matthew Reidsma.
Throughout the history of the so-called “New World,” people of African descent have faced a yawning chasm where their ancestry should be. People bought and sold to labor on plantations lost not only their names but their connections to their language, tradition, and culture.
Google promised a fix after its photo-categorization software labeled black people as gorillas in 2015. More than two years later, it hasn't found one.
The COMPAS tool is widely used to assess a defendant’s risk of committing more crimes, but a new study puts its usefulness into perspective.
The following are remarks by Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd for her keynote at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York…
Tutorial: 21 fairness definitions and their politics Arvind Narayanan Update: this tutorial was presented at the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Feb 23 2018. Watch it here. Computer scientists and statisticians have devised numerous mathematical criteria to define ...
By Virginia Eubanks, from Automating Inequality, which was published this month by St. Martin's Press. Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY, an
Building culturally-relevant AI... and how nobody has yet.
The Paradox of Tolerance for tech companies How to support free speech but not white supremacy http://frameshiftconsulting.com/ CC BY-SA Frame Shift Consulting LLC
Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in inventing this tool for categorizing anything.
You wouldn’t guess Wayne Maines’ story by looking at him. The brewpub we’re sitting in has just opened and there aren’t many lunch customers even though it’s tourist season in Portland, ME. Dressed in a button-up shirt, Maines eyes me and my voice recorder cautiously as we chat.
The inventor of the world wide web remains an optimist but sees a ‘nasty wind’ blowing amid concerns over advertising, net neutrality and fake news
How the design of forms can decide an election, affect racial profiling and shape identity
As the social media giant grows in the developing world, its platform is being used to spread misinformation and incite violence.
As artificial intelligence reshapes law enforcement, healthcare, education and more, tech firms need to widen their data lens.
A National Book Award finalist writes on how she helped change one in her hometown