All Narratives (356)
Find narratives by ethical themes or by technologies.
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- 40 min
- New York Times
- 2021
As facial recognition technology becomes more prominent in everyday life, used by players such as law enforcement officials and private actors to identify faces by comparing them with databases, AI ethicists/experts such as Joy Buolamwini push back against the many forms of bias that these technologies show, specifically racial and gender bias. Governments often use such technologies callously or irresponsibly, and lack of regulation on the private companies which sell these products could lead society into a post-privacy era.
- New York Times
- 2021
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- 40 min
- New York Times
- 2021
She’s Taking Jeff Bezos to Task
As facial recognition technology becomes more prominent in everyday life, used by players such as law enforcement officials and private actors to identify faces by comparing them with databases, AI ethicists/experts such as Joy Buolamwini push back against the many forms of bias that these technologies show, specifically racial and gender bias. Governments often use such technologies callously or irresponsibly, and lack of regulation on the private companies which sell these products could lead society into a post-privacy era.
Do you envision an FDA-style approach to technology regulation, particularly for facial recognition, being effective? Can large tech companies be incentivized to make truly ethical decisions on how their technology is created or deployed as long as the profit motive exists? What would this look like? What changes to the technology workforces, such as who designs software products or who chooses data sets, need to be made for technology’s impact to become more equal across populations?
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- 40 min
- New York Times Magazine
- 2021
This article goes into extraordinary detail on the company Clearview AI, a company whose algorithm has crawled the public web to provide over 3 billion photos of faces with links that travel to the original source of each photo. Discusses the legality and privacy concerns of this technology, how the technology has already been used by law enforcement and in court cases, and the founding of the company. Private use of technology similar to that of Clearview AI could revolutionize society and may move us to the post-privacy era.
- New York Times Magazine
- 2021
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- 40 min
- New York Times Magazine
- 2021
Your Face Is Not Your Own
This article goes into extraordinary detail on the company Clearview AI, a company whose algorithm has crawled the public web to provide over 3 billion photos of faces with links that travel to the original source of each photo. Discusses the legality and privacy concerns of this technology, how the technology has already been used by law enforcement and in court cases, and the founding of the company. Private use of technology similar to that of Clearview AI could revolutionize society and may move us to the post-privacy era.
Should companies like Clearview AI exist? How would facial recognition be misused by both authorities and the general public if it were to permeate all aspects of life?
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- 3 min
- Kinolab
- 2020
Nathan, a computer programmer, lives in an imagined version of 2033 in which all cars are equipped with a vocal assistant and an autonomous drive program. When he takes control of his own car and drives recklessly, he is pulled over by a police drone. Eventually, he meets his demise when the autonomous drive in his car fails to recognize a parked truck in the middle of the road.
- Kinolab
- 2020
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- 3 min
- Kinolab
- 2020
Self-Driving Vehicles and Drone Traffic Stops
Nathan, a computer programmer, lives in an imagined version of 2033 in which all cars are equipped with a vocal assistant and an autonomous drive program. When he takes control of his own car and drives recklessly, he is pulled over by a police drone. Eventually, he meets his demise when the autonomous drive in his car fails to recognize a parked truck in the middle of the road.
What are the dangers of autonomous drive programs? Should AI be trusted to handle potentially lethal situations? What are the pros and cons of using police drones instead of police cars to monitor traffic? What are the benefits of using self-driving vehicles? How can they free up their owners to do other work or spend leisure time, without the need for human labor? In the case of mistakes made by these vehicles, is the owner responsible or the vehicle?
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- 3 min
- Kinolab
- 2019
In an imagined future of London, citizens all across the globe are connected to the Feed, a device and network accessed constantly through a brain-computer interface. In this narrative, Tom and Ben find out that their father Lawrence, the creator of the Feed, harvested the Feeds from dead people and used the data stored therein to upload their consciousnesses, including memories and emotions, into a cloud. After seeing the “training data” of Lawrence creating digital consciousnesses on this program, an AI was able to make many more digital consciousnesses of non-real people. These consciousnesses are then able to “possess” human bodies through being uploaded to the Feed devices implanted in real people’s brains.
- Kinolab
- 2019
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- 3 min
- Kinolab
- 2019
Digitally Reproducing Humans and “Possession”
In an imagined future of London, citizens all across the globe are connected to the Feed, a device and network accessed constantly through a brain-computer interface. In this narrative, Tom and Ben find out that their father Lawrence, the creator of the Feed, harvested the Feeds from dead people and used the data stored therein to upload their consciousnesses, including memories and emotions, into a cloud. After seeing the “training data” of Lawrence creating digital consciousnesses on this program, an AI was able to make many more digital consciousnesses of non-real people. These consciousnesses are then able to “possess” human bodies through being uploaded to the Feed devices implanted in real people’s brains.
Do we as humans need the physical world and our bodies, or can we successfully transfer/upload consciousness and live only in the digital space? Is consciousness the same thing as a soul, or different? Are these people discussed in the clip human, AI, or something in between? What are the far-reaching consequences of AI potentially being able to create realistic consciousnesses? How can brain-computer interfaces implanted into a person lead to a complete loss of their own autonomy? Can and should humans choose to donate their consciousnesses, memories, or emotions to science, with ultimately small knowledge of how these may be deployed?
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- 10 min
- New York Times
- 2019
Racial bias in facial recognition software used for Government Civil Surveillance in Detroit. Racially biased technology. Diminishes agency of minority groups and enhances latent human bias.
- New York Times
- 2019
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- 10 min
- New York Times
- 2019
As Cameras Track Detroit’s Residents, a Debate Ensues Over Racial Bias
Racial bias in facial recognition software used for Government Civil Surveillance in Detroit. Racially biased technology. Diminishes agency of minority groups and enhances latent human bias.
What are the consequences of employing biased technologies to survey citizens? Who loses agency, and who gains agency?
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- 5 min
- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
In the case of the New Orleans Police Department, along with other cities, data used to train predictive crime algorithms was inconsistent and “dirty” to begin with, making the results disproportionately targeted toward disadvantaged communities.
- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
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- 5 min
- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data
In the case of the New Orleans Police Department, along with other cities, data used to train predictive crime algorithms was inconsistent and “dirty” to begin with, making the results disproportionately targeted toward disadvantaged communities.
If the data which we train algorithms with is inherently biased, then can we truly ever get a “fair” algorithm? Can AI programs ever solve or remove human bias? What might happen if machines make important criminal justice decisions, such as sentence lengths?