Data & Society
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Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
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While the AI video startup Synthesia says it makes benign “synthetic media” — not “deepfakes” — Melissa Heikkilä considers whether the distinction is actually a meaningful one, and what we lose when we can no longer distinguish what is real from what is not. technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/109…
ICYMI, Maitreya Shah and coauthors unpacked 'automation' for Data & Society's Keywords of the Datafied State, a collection of essays on concepts central to understanding the relationship between government and technology.
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'The gigantic and costly industry Silicon Valley is building around generative AI is still struggling to explain the technology's utility,' Scott Rosenberg reports. After a year and a half, 'it remains tough to say exactly why we should all start using [it].' axios.com/2024/04/24/gen…
📢New Briefing
How do we achieve a collective work agenda for the #DigitalEconomy ?
Our new FES briefing by Aiha Nguyen compares the the situations in the 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺.
👉shorturl.at/tMQS0
The incorrect information dispensed by NYC’s AI-powered chatbot “is a perfect illustration of how premature adoption of new technology...can create costs for governments — and the public — that far outweigh the benefits,” writes D&S’s Aiha Nguyen. thehill.com/opinion/techno…
People create in large part to communicate with other people, Judith Donath @[email protected] and Schneier Blog argue, making LLMs — which synthesize their own answers rather than connecting people to what others have created — a direct threat to the public commons of the web. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Excited to partner with Ranjit Singh and Emnet Tafesse from Data & Society on this Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab sponsored project focused on informing the design of literacy interventions for generative AI. 🥳
techethicslab.nd.edu/news/notre-dam…
Congratulations to D&S’s Ranjit Singh and Emnet Tafesse, whose project “The Ethics of Using Large-Scale Models: Investigating Literacy Interventions for Generative AI” is among those receiving funding from Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab! business.dcu.ie/notre-dame-ibm…
Join us next week on Thursday, May 2 for our #DigitalCivilSociety Speaker Series conversation with artist Mimi Ọnụọha, whose work questions and exposes the contradictory logics of technological progress.
Register for this free, virtual event: pacscenter.stanford.edu/event/digital-…
Thanks, Ranjit, Jenna Burrell, PhD, and Patrick Davison, for seeing this fantastic project through! It was a delight to think & write with this group of scholars.
My essay is on corporate capture, which talks about how the datafied state is already captured by the tech industry +
Drawing on research conducted in Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 'The Platform Livelihoods Project' explores the experiences of workers as they rely on platforms to earn a living, and considers how their experiences might be improved. cariboudigital.net/2023/12/platfo…
With neurotechnology on the rise, Sigal Samuel reports on the emerging “neurorights” movement, which aims to protect our brains — and our thoughts, feelings, and senses — from being exploited by tech companies. vox.com/future-perfect…
'...transactional ties, where the tech industry deliberately exploits cash-strapped public institutions and asserts its expertise in data science. Under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have turned the state into a reliant client.' -Burcu Baykurt GloTech Lab
WORDS MATTER. Especially in the #DatafiedState .
Thrilled to write on #OpenData for Data & Society’s “Keywords of the Datafied State”
LINK: datasociety.net/wp-content/upl…
In the essay, I unpack the technopolitics of “open” data drawing on India’s experience.
READ MORE on the project👇
what is 'public interest'? anne washington and i explore this question in the Data & Society anthology.
Thanks to Ranjit, Jenna Burrell, PhD and Patrick Davison for seeing this project through and guiding our evolving conversations on all things datafied state. So happy this is out in the world! Data & Society McGill Faculty of Law | Faculté de droit