AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Promises to ‘Shape Reality’ – 404 Media
The overview document describes Impact as a “A Volunteer Fire Department For The Digital World,” empowering “masses of ‘good people’”… read more
Obedience [poem] – Ben Mirov
What is your [master] doing—I don’t know. I’m not privy—Is your [master] making war— I don’t know. I’m not… read more
Confronting Tech Power – AI NOW Institute
Our latest annual report diagnoses concentration of power in the tech industry as a pressing challenge – and points the… read more
Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check – Vox
One of the absurdities of the current situation is that when AI systems produce harm, it falls to researchers, investigative… read more
A new algorithmic identity: Soft biopolitics and the modulation of control (Cheney-Lippold)
Marketing and web analytic companies have implemented sophisticated algorithms to observe, analyze, and identify users through large surveillance networks online…. read more
Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach
Machine learning (ML) increasingly permeates every sphere of life. Complex, contextual, continually moving social and political challenges are automated and… read more
Information asymmetry and power in a surveillance society (Lightfoot & Wisniewski)
This paper fuses Lukes’ (1974) three-dimensional view of power with the economic concept of informational asymmetry to explicate how access… read more