Diana Sardjoe writes for Fair Trials about how her sons were profiled by the Amsterdam police on the basis of risk models (a form of predictive policing) called ‘Top600’ (for adults) and ‘Top400’ for people aged 12 to 23). Because of this profiling her sons were “continually monitored and harassed by police.”
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This fantastic article by Williams, Miceli and Gebru, describes how the methodological shift of AI systems to deep-learning-based models has required enormous amounts of “data” for models to learn from. Large volumes of time-consuming work, such as labelling millions of images, can now be broken down into smaller tasks and outsourced to data labourers across the globe. These data labourers have terribly low wagen, often working in dire working conditions.
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‘Effective Altruism’ is all the vogue, but deeply problematic.
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In this bizarre yet unsurprising example of an AI-gone-wrong (or “rogue”), an artificially designed robot rapper, FN Meka, has been dropped by Capitol Music Group for racial slurs and the use of the N-word in his music.
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