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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Dec 2019

    The 2019 AI Now Report is LIVE. It’s our biggest yet, reviewing the last year and how AI is concentrating power in the hands of those who already have it, from the AI management at work, to AI’s impact on climate change and healthcare, and much more

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  2. Mar 11

    . and spoke with , & on the NYC ADS Task Force, the City’s missed chance to lead & how advocates and community formed a powerful coalition to face inaction. Watch “NYC’s Lost Opportunity” here:

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  3. Mar 10

    Congratulations to on being named to the advisory board. We can't think of a better person to help steer the future of rigorous investigative journalism 👏👏👏

    We’re thrilled to welcome eight new members to our advisory board! Details here:
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  4. Mar 5

    One of the main sources of info ICE uses for immigration enforcement is data obtained from DMV databases because of how easy it is for ICE to access this data. Our friends at ’s report proposes policies that would protect our private info

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  5. Mar 3

    "Drawing from AI Now's recent report on Disability, Bias, and AI, I'd like to suggest the [governance] framework of 'Nothing about us without us.' It demands that individuals have ownership of the policies and decisions that affect their lives and communities." -

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  6. Mar 3

    "Making facial recognition & other algorithmic technologies 'better' is not social progress when those technologies are disproportionately deployed to surveil Black, Latinx, migrant, refugee, & immigrant communities who already face systemic oppression & overpolicing." 2/3

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  7. Mar 3

    Our amazing Research Lead spoke at the and “Counted and Visible” Conference. Here’s what she had to say: 1/3

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  8. Mar 2

    Only humans can dismantle systems of oppression that plague law enforcement. reminds that “predictive policing systems will never be safe or just until the criminal justice system they’re built on is reformed.”

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  9. Feb 26

    Discriminatory policing is a global problem. and Patrick Williams’ testimony from have repeatedly raised concerns about racial profiling and overpolicing in Europe.

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  10. Feb 25

    . citing the Dirty Data study by Rashida Richardson, and , which found a high risk that many predictive policing systems use data tainted by illegal, corrupt, or biased policing practices.

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    Feb 24

    I'm in the arguing for a ban on both gov and private face rec: "These systems are biased in how they work and how they're deployed, and they're often created and implemented in obscurity, without public review or full accountability under the law."

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  12. Feb 24

    Also check out and for more info on the dangers of facial recognition and ICE-DMV data sharing

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  13. Feb 24

    Protecting immigrants, drivers & our own data are all worth losing Global Entry for. Our ED argues in that longer customs lines are a small price to pay to protect our data from abuse.

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  14. Retweeted
    Feb 24

    We can finally share a little secret: has just been acquired by MoMA. Wild! Huge thanks to the whole curatorial team at for their support of our project, and to for this joyous collab ✨♥️🗺️

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  15. Feb 24

    “Predictive policing is neither magic nor a precise science that allows us to see into the future.” Watch explain to that predictive policing tools are fallible forecasts.

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  16. Feb 21

    : testified before this week on the dangers of predictive policing systems. Watch her testimony here:

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  17. Retweeted
    Feb 19

    ✨Data Genesis Update✨ is now hiring a Critical Designer! If you like using media and design to investigate how training data is made, and how it affects machine learning systems in the world - this is your gig👇

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  18. Feb 20

    Before the , described the 3 main concerns around predictive policing tools: ❌Public is left in the dark about how and when tools are used ❌They rely on subjective data, not actual crime rates ❌No known methods for mitigating biases

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  19. Feb 20

    .: “Predictive policing systems will never be safe or just until the criminal justice system they’re built on is reformed.”

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  20. Feb 20

    “Life and liberty are at stake with predictive policing systems, making government oversight and community input essential.” - explaining to what’s at stake if these invasive tech tools are unregulated

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  21. Feb 19

    Tomorrow, our Executive Director will be testifying before on the risks and harms associated with predictive policing systems. 🙌🙌🙌

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