This whole issue looks SO INCREDIBLY GOOD! If you care about AI, power, AI and Power, good scholarship, etc. https://
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First Monday Issue on AI and Power Scholarship
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Politics of AI Power: Precision Matters in Partisan Debates
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These powers *are* politics. Politics doesn't stop and end with partisan side-taking. And if we can't be precise then we can't win.
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Big Tech’s Ad-Surveillance Model and Media Centralization Problem
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It's the business model, the ad-surveillance driven incentives, and the centralization of our media ecosystem that need to be addressed. This does none of that, it simply gives a large co the ability to define "nuance" "evidence based reasoning" etc..
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Digital Surveillance and Reproductive Rights: Jessica Burgess Case
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No one should have these powers. But ofc there are real diffs that manifest materially for real people. Like Jessica Burgess who's living in prison rn for accessing reproductive care for her daughter in a state that criminalized it. Facebook messages provided key evidence.
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BigTech AI Content Moderation: Control Consolidation Without Accountability
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TLDR: to 'solve' trash content on trash surveillance platforms, BigTech AI will flag whether content is 'good' or not. Can we please stop falling for this? This isn't 'solving' the problem. It's simply consolidating control over platforms w/o attending to who will wield it.
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Extremism and the erosion of free speech defense
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And, sadly, the fairly predictable result of abandoning defense of speech and expression to extremists.
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Free Expression Under Threat: AI and Dissent Rights
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Incredibly alarming for anyone invested in free expression and the right to dissent.
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Society Accepts AI Integration and Transformation
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Society seems to have come to terms with that
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Google Glass Backlash: Surveillance Concerns and Tech Industry Reactions
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Google Glass wearers were being attacked in San Francisco ten years ago – though that could partly have been a reaction against the tech industry generally, hard to know if it was directly due to surveillance concerns
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Social Acceptance Challenges for Recording Devices Privacy Concerns
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I don't see how these products can get over the social factor that nobody likes the idea that someone else is recording them without their explicit permission Whether or not the devices actually do that doesn't matter – just wearing an inactive microphone or camera is risky