Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.
By Kashmir Hill and Nico Grant for The New York Times on May 22, 2023
An artist considers a new form of machinic representation: the statistical rendering of large datasets, indexed to the probable rather than the real of photography; to the uncanny composite rather than the abstraction of the graph.
By Hito Steyerl for New Left Review on April 28, 2023
Some drivers in India are finding their accounts permanently blocked. Better transparency of the AI technology could help gig workers.
By Varsha Bansal for MIT Technology Review on December 6, 2022
Graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology are highly sought after by employers. They can also bring problems from home.
By Saritha Rai for Bloomberg on March 11, 2021
A government leader in Argentina hailed the AI, which was fed invasive data about girls. The feminist pushback could inform the future of health tech.
By Alexa Hagerty, Diego Jemio and Florencia Aranda for WIRED on February 16, 2022
ADCU has launched legal action against Uber over the unfair dismissal of a driver and a courier after the company’s facial recognition system failed to identify them.
By James Farrar, Paul Jennings and Yaseen Aslam for The App Drivers and Couriers Union on October 6, 2021
Behind the promise of automation, advances of machine learning and AI, often paraded by tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Tesla, lies a deeply exploitative industry of cheap, human labour. In an excerpt published on Rest of the World from his forthcoming book, “Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism,” Phil Jones illustrates how the hidden labour of automation is outsourced to marginalised, racialised and disenfranchised populations within the Global North, as well as in the Global South.
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Race and technology are closely intertwined, continuously influencing and reshaping one another. While algorithmic bias has received increased attention in recent years, it is only one of the many ways that technology and race intersect in computer science, public health, digital media, gaming, surveillance, and other domains. To build inclusive technologies that empower us all, we must understand how technologies and race construct one another and with what consequences.
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The Plug and Fast Company looked at what happened to the 3.8 billion dollars that US-based tech companies committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as their response to the Black Lives Matter protests.
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The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms.
By Kate Crawford for The Guardian on June 6, 2021
From Siri, to Alexa, to Google Now, voice-based virtual assistants have increasingly become ubiquitous in our daily lives. So, it is unsurprising that yet another AI technology – speech recognition systems – has been reported to be biased against black people.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: Speech recognition systems by major tech companies are biased”
Critics say it merely techwashes injustice.
By Annie Gilbertson for The Markup on August 20, 2020
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