weapons of math destruction Airbnb has software that searches social media to identify creeps and psychopaths Mark Frauenfelder
Copyfight Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow
class war When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener Cory Doctorow
Business Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow
AI Pentagon reassures public that its autonomous robotic tank adheres to "legal and ethical standards" for AI-driven killbots Cory Doctorow
ukpoli London councils plan to slash benefit payments with an "anti-fraud" system known to have a 20% failure rate Cory Doctorow
corruption Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow
science fiction Stet, a gorgeous, intricate, tiny story of sociopathic automotive vehicles Cory Doctorow
gender Amazon trained a sexism-fighting, resume-screening AI with sexist hiring data, so the bot became sexist Cory Doctorow
california Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow
Business The ACLU showed that Amazon's facial recognition system thinks members of Congress are felons, so now Congress is taking action Cory Doctorow
class war The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless Cory Doctorow
immigration ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone Cory Doctorow
crime Thanks to 2016's trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America's courts have become AI-Kafka nightmares Cory Doctorow
uk Welsh police deployed facial recognition tech with a 92% false positive rate, but they're sure it's fine Cory Doctorow
