Newsletter #56

Amnesty International UK’s report Automated Racism (from last February, PDF), reveals that almost three-quarters of UK police forces use discriminatory predictive policing systems that perpetuate racial profiling. At least 33 deploy AI tools that predict crime locations and profile individuals as future criminals based on biased historical data, perpetuating and entrenching racism and inequality.

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The genomics field, where bioinformatics algorithms play a significant role, remains deeply entangled with societal inequalities.

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If you have been looking for an overview of which privacy-infringing surveillance systems are deployed or issued by your country, we have found just the tool.

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To successfully govern our information society in the years to come, a solid understanding of technological developments is crucial. The Masterclass Net Politics is a series of meetings with speakers from Amnesty International, Bits of Freedom, Internet Society Netherlands, Open State Foundation, PublicSpaces, SetUp, Waag Futurelab, and yours truly: The Racism and Technology Center.

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For a day or so, Musk’s Grok AI chatbot would add its belief in a “white genocide” in South Africa, by now a classic white supremacist fabrication, to nearly every answer it would give regardless of the question asked.

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