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Surveillance Isn’t Safety

How Communities are Re-imagining Safety In School — In an era of mass shootings, millions of dollars are spent each year on equipping elementary and high school campuses with military-grade surveillance. Companies often promise that such technologies will prevent the next school attack or help authorities respond faster when one occurs. …

Surveillance

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Surveillance Isn’t Safety
Surveillance Isn’t Safety
Surveillance

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OneZero

·Oct 13, 2020

To Build a Better Future, Designers Need to Start Saying ‘No’

Reflections on the transformative potential of refusal as a method in the design of technology — Last year at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), one of the most well-respected computer science conferences in the world, the opening panel discussion on A.I. for social good didn’t go quite as people might have expected. “I’m not usually in spaces like this, and I’m not entirely…

Data Science

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To Build a Better Future, Designers Need to Start Saying ‘No’
To Build a Better Future, Designers Need to Start Saying ‘No’
Data Science

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The Startup

·Mar 6, 2020

Studying Up: Reorienting the field of algorithmic fairness around issues of power

On January 28, 2020, I presented a paper at the ACM FAccT* conference. Below is the write-up of that presentation. You can find the paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3372859 Einstein once said that if he had an hour to solve a problem and his life depended on the solution, he would spend…

Algorithms

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Studying Up: Reorienting the field of algorithmic fairness around issues of power
Studying Up: Reorienting the field of algorithmic fairness around issues of power
Algorithms

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MIT MEDIA LAB

·Dec 20, 2019

Beyond Bias: Contextualizing “Ethical AI” Within the History of Exploitation and Innovation in Medical Research

On December 14, 2019 I gave an invited talk at the “Fair ML for Health” workshop at NeurIPS. Below is a write-up of that talk. You can watch the talk here: https://slideslive.com/38922104/fair-ml-in-healthcare-3?t=3848s It’s time for us to move beyond “bias” as the anchor point for our efforts to build ethical…

Machine Learning

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Beyond Bias: Contextualizing “Ethical AI” Within the History of Exploitation and Innovation in…
Beyond Bias: Contextualizing “Ethical AI” Within the History of Exploitation and Innovation in…
Machine Learning

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MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative

·Aug 6, 2015

Digital Currency Initiative Hacks on Bitcoin with 120 Girls Who Code

Inclusion and diversity are both part of our core mission at the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative. …

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Digital Currency Initiative Hacks on Bitcoin with 120 Girls Who Code
Digital Currency Initiative Hacks on Bitcoin with 120 Girls Who Code

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Feb 9, 2015

Beyond a Colorblind Society

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Studies have shown time and again that implicit bias continues…

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Beyond a Colorblind Society
Beyond a Colorblind Society

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Jun 26, 2014

Google’s diversity numbers aren’t great. Now what?

The next conversation we need to have about diversity in tech  — A couple of weeks ago Google released stats on the demographic makeup of its employees. The numbers weren’t great, but the release did produce a helpful domino effect in the industry, as other major tech companies like Linkedin and Yahoo subsequently also came clean about the disproportionate slice of the…

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Google’s diversity numbers aren’t great. Now what?
Google’s diversity numbers aren’t great. Now what?

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