Amnesty report (yet again) exposes racist AI in UK police forces

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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Join the (Dutch) Masterclass Net Politics!

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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Racist Technology in Action: Grok AI is obsessively focused on the extreme right trope of “white genocide” in South Africa

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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