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  • The Washington Post
  • 2021
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He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?

The academic Philip Agre, a computer scientist by training, wrote several papers warning about the impacts of unfair AI and data barons after spending several years studying the humanities and realizing that these perspectives were missing from the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. These papers were published in the 1990s, long before the data-industrial complex and the normalization of algorithms in the everyday lives of citizens. Although he was an educated whistleblower, his predictions were ultimately ignored, the field of artificial intelligence remaining closed off from outside criticism.

  • The Washington Post
  • 2021
  • 3 min
  • CNN
  • 2021
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Microsoft patented a chatbot that would let you talk to dead people. It was too disturbing for production

The prominence of social data on any given person afforded by digital artifacts, such as social media posts and text messages, can be used to train a new algorithm patented by Microsoft to create a chatbot meant to imitate that specific person. This technology has not been released, however, due to its harrowing ethical implications of impersonation and dissonance. For the Black Mirror episode referenced in the article, see the narratives “Martha and Ash Parts I and II.”

  • CNN
  • 2021
  • 10 min
  • The Atlantic
  • 2014
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How Self-Tracking Apps Exclude Women

When the Apple Health app first released, it lacked one crucial component: the ability to track menstrual cycles. This exclusion of women from accessible design of technology is not the exception but rather the rule. This results from problems inherent to the gender imbalance in technology workplaces, especially at the level of design. Communities such as the Quantified Self offer spaces to help combat this exclusive culture.

  • The Atlantic
  • 2014
  • 10 min
  • Slate
  • 2021
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How a Dead Professor Is Teaching a University Art History Class

Using the tale of Art History Professor François-Marc Gagnon, whose video lectures were used to instruct students even after his death, this article raises questions about how technologies such as digital memory and data streaming for education in the time of coronavirus may ultimately undervalue the work of educators.

  • Slate
  • 2021
  • 5 min
  • Inc
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Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations. That’s Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem

Clubhouse, a new, exclusive social network app which appeared during the coronavirus pandemic, has some frightening data collection practices which are outlined in detail in this article. Essentially, while the company was not monetized at the time of this article, it collects data not only on users on the platform, but also any contacts of that user.

  • Inc
  • 5 min
  • CNET
  • 2019
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Demonstrators scan public faces in DC to show lack of facial recognition laws

Fight for the Future, a digital activist group, used Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition software to scan faces on the street in Washington DC to show that there should be more guardrails on the use of this type of technology, before it is deployed for ends which violate human rights such as identifying peaceful protestors.

  • CNET
  • 2019