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Call for Abstracts: Race, Ethnicity, Technology & Elections – Defining Problems, Developing Solutions In order to submit an abstract, please complete the form available here. Even as the 2022 U.S. […]
By Tech Policy PressDISCO Network Co-Principal Investigators Lisa Nakamura, Rayvon Fouché, Remi Yergeau, André Brock, Stephanie Dinkins, and Catherine Knight Steele will come together in a panel discussion to address current trends and […]
What do Russian protesters have in common with Twitter users freaked out about Elon Musk reading their DMs and people worried about the criminalization of abortion? It would serve them […]
By Afsaneh RigotIn an age of virtual connectivity and increased reliance on the internet for daily functions, including by marginalized groups, can companies and technologists reframe their features or standards to support […]
By Afsaneh RigotDate: June 16, 2022 Join the Digital Rights Job Fair Meet leading organizations at the intersection of technology, human rights, and social justice, working on the most important issues facing […]
By Digital Rights Job FairIn June 2021, Alita, a trans woman living in Saudi Arabia, saw a hashtag trending on Twitter that translated roughly to “a space for hatred of religion.” In a Twitter […]
By Andrew Deck, Emily Fishbein, and Eve GlatskyDuring the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, and the early decades of the 20th century, U.S. captains of industry such as William Randolph Hearst and Jay Gould used their massive […]
By Nolan HigdonIt may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, […]
By Eliza StricklandDorothy R. Santos is a Filipino American storyteller, poet, artist, and scholar, and she is an assistant teaching professor in the art department and Principal Founding Faculty for Creative Technologies […]
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the […]
By Karen HaoPaidamoyo Chapfuwa, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, will deliver a talk as part of CSRAI’s Young Achievers Symposium. The Young Achievers Symposium highlights early career researchers in […]