events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, internet-destroying copyright proposal that'll censor everything from Tinder profiles to Wikipedia (SHARE THIS!) Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" Cory Doctorow

Science The coded gaze: biased and understudied facial recognition technology Andrea James

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

Business A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation Cory Doctorow

computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

antitrust To help the news business, subject Big Tech to antitrust — but don't forget Big News's antitrust problem Cory Doctorow

surveillance Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol's predictive policing services? Cory Doctorow

sponsored The Poet of Code Boing Boing

first days of a better nation No one's coming – it's up to us: it's past time for technologists to be responsible to society Dan Hon

videos Ethics and AI: all models are wrong, some are useful, and some of those are good Cory Doctorow

gender Forget Skynet: AI is already making things terrible for people who aren't rich white dudes Cory Doctorow

agitprop A project to algorithmically generate all "prior art" and obviate the patent system Mark Frauenfelder

videos Racist algorithms: how Big Data makes bias seem objective Cory Doctorow

corruption House GOP defends the right of racist car-dealers to overcharge people of color Cory Doctorow

Crystal, an app that attempts to summarize your personality Clive Thompson