'we warn that ambitious research ideas & technical projects of/for algorithmic auditing may end up crashed by the standardising grip of traditional auditors &/or diluted within a complex web of (sub-)contractual arrangements'🔥🔥

must read paper for all interested in algo audit

Statement from Concerned Faculty at UT

While each of these deals might look relatively insignificant in isolation, taken together they paint a clear picture of an AI industry that is rapidly consolidating around a few entrenched tech giants. Credit to the CMA for understanding the threat, and taking it seriously.

IP as Labor Policy, now forthcoming NYU Law Review (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…): the past few weeks’ pop headlines, first of Taylor Swift putting her music back up on tiktok before the release of tortured poets dept because she bargained for IP ownership of her music with…

New GAO report on information gaps and stakeholder effects of biometric technologies.

'There's still a lot to learn about how these technologies perform in the real world and how they affect specific communities.'
gao.gov/products/gao-2…

.FTC’s Office of Technology released a new Quote Book & Blog from the Tech Summit on AI on data and models. Panelists outlined that the methods of data collection and model development have implications for both competition and consumer protection: bit.ly/3U6oIzV /1

In remarks FTC AI Summit, Amba Kak stated, “This AI race is based on assumptions about scale and speed as proxy for progress. It's based on narrow benchmarks, that never contend with long term environmental or labor impacts, or impacts on our information environment.”

'How will patients, and businesses with smaller footprints and voices, fare after popular notions harden into regulation?'

Great piece by Casey Ross and Brittany Trang.

statnews.com/2024/04/18/mic…

We're so encouraged by the interest in the new positions at AI Now!

For equity reasons, we will hold two open office hours sessions to answer the questions we've gotten and answer more have about the roles and what a day-in-the-life-of-AI now looks like :) Register below.

Come work with us!! We're a small core team, by design, and these two new roles will be a crucial part of shaping our work and how we do it.

All the details here:
apply.workable.com/ai-now-institu…

Will be speaking this afternoon at this The GenLaw Center event, alongside Erie Nitarshan Rajkumar Raquel Vazquez Llorente & more. Join us on the livestream!

Indian delivery app Swiggy has gamified health insurance, cutting workers’ coverage if they complete fewer orders

New from Varsha Bansal
restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

Looking for a great job in the AI // tech justice space? Well, here are TWO openings at the heavy-hitting AI Now.

1: Ops Director to grow the org with care and precision
2: Associate Director to help shape and execute policy programming

Great article by Sam Biddle where I note the dangers of not understanding the failure modes of AI prior to being deployed in military applications.

I spoke to the New Republic about the dangerous belief that AI can help accelerate nuclear construction and regulatory processes.

New: YouTube approved dozens of ads promoting voter suppression and incitement to violence ahead of the upcoming Indian election, according to a new investigation by Global Witness and Access Now, shared exclusively with TIME:

time.com/6961504/youtub…

Note the anti-worker frame: If an employer is paying a worker below her MRP due to some restraint that impairs mobility, the elimination of said restraint causes wages to rise towards competitive levels. We don't refer to that outcome as a profit sacrifice. Just less exploitation

Marketplace Sarah Myers West Lily Jamali Rosie Hughes Read our longer essay on the limitations of the current US approach to AI investments, often at odds with the Biden Admin’s aim of building a democratized and worker-focused agenda:

ainowinstitute.org/publication/a-…