I don’t think Americans understand the extent to which the “foreign-intelligence exception” has hollowed out the Fourth Amendment. Most reporting about the current legislative debate is technical and incremental, and misses the forest for the trees. 1/

We’re happy to announce that the first contracts have been signed with small investigative media to protect them with #ReportersShield - a member organization that provides free lawyers to journalists in the event they are sued for defamation. reporters-shield.org Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project 1/3

A timely conversation between Dr. Joy Buolamwini and Nabiha Syed in The Markup, where my fellow Young Global Leaders cohort's Dr Joy Buolamwini talks about on her book: “Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines.
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I love this kind of journalism because it helps ever-so-slightly correct the problem of VCs benefiting from startups that do harmful things knowing that they themselves won't suffer reputational (or any other) consequences.

CPJ MENA State Department: Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor President Biden Israel Defense Forces Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 בני גנץ - Benny Gantz Nadine Smith Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) Will Brown Ron DeSantis I agree with Nabiha Syed: the lack of a national strategy for large-scale job loss due to automation – when AI eats into white collar jobs like robotics did manufacturing – is a growing threat for democracies.
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Fiona Hill wrote about this poignantly in her…

It was such an honor to be part of Ida Bae Wells’ Democracy Summit at Howard University yesterday. Feeling fired up after a day of phenomenal speakers and one of my favorite AI panels I’ve been on with Nabiha Syed Khari Johnson and Errin Haines 😷🧼🧴💉.

“Nursing home care has been among the most frequently denied services by the private plans [using predictions from AI models that cut care short] — something original Medicare likely would cover, investigators found.

After UHC cut off her nursing home coverage, Sullivan’s…

You know what's most striking about this graphic? It's not that mentions of people/cities/etc from different continents cluster together in terms of word co-occurrences. It's just how sparse the data from the Global South are.

Nabiha Syed Telling great stories about how INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY paired with powerful tech can create meaningful change. THIS IS OUR WORK.
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Just heard Nabiha Syed, CEO of The MarkUp, at the #CSforALLSummit . ‘ The key to technology for good is collaboration! Reaching across silos and skills for solutions.’ This resonates deeply as we continue to bring CS to our community! Nabiha Syed #csiseverywhere #CSTAEquityFellow

Someone recently pointed out to me that California privacy law requires companies to report consumer data requests.

Clearview started keeping track in 2021. Over 2 years, fewer than 1000 people (out of 34 mil Californians) asked to delete their face from Clearview's database.

Very excited to be on stage for this tomorrow, with the inimitable Martha Minow and Nancy Gibbs!

How can we go beyond auditing algorithms to also investigate how users change in response to algorithms? We introduced Sociotechnical Audits & the Intervenr system to address this challenge! Join us at #CSCW2023 —Wed 2:30pm for our honorable mention paper 🤠🧵:

Can we make #LLMs forget data points without accessing or changing any of their model parameters?

We introduce In-Context Unlearning, a novel paradigm that leverages the capabilities of LLMs to unlearn data points from these models with just query access. More details👇

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NEWS: Columbia Institute of Global Politics will be home to a new innovation lab on artificial intelligence & democracy as part of Emmanuel Macron’s “Etats Généraux de l’Information”

Led by Camille François and Maria Ressa, the lab aims to answer urgent questions faced by democratic societies in an age…

Ethan Mollick It doesn't work 'cause it can't work.
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Interested in EPIC's recent report on govt AI procurement but don't have the time to read all 143 pages?

Good news: a digestible summary of our report was just featured by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (@mtlaiethics)!

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Some news, as they say. I am going to be starting as the data editor for investigations at The Guardian theguardian.com/gnm-press-offi…

By 'success' in prediction, the article is referring to what stats people would call 'PRECISION'. And that is *THE RIGHT METRIC* to be using for this analysis (IMO). These are results worth taking seriously. Thanks to Surya Mattu & Aaron Sankin for the work!!

This investigation is wild - in the one city they could get the data for, it turns out PredPol was correct only ~1% (!!) of the time.

It literally enrages me how rampant this kind of dysfunctional 'AI' technology is. What a dangerous waste of money.

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