Dr. Avriel Epps

Exploring AI's societal impact

Home Reading Recs References

What Is An Algorithm?

Module 1 of Algorithms, Power, & Society

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The Relevance of Algorithms

(Gillespie, 2013)

What is a Machine Learning Algorithm? — Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies

(Epps et al., 2020)

Teaching Kids That Technology Is Like A Rainforest

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How the Racism Baked Into Technology Hurts Teens

The Atlantic

When Things Go Viral: Youth’s Discrimination Exposure in the World of Social Media

Handbook of Children and Prejudice

Black Kids In STEM Is Necessary But INSUFFICIENT

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When Things Go Viral: Youth’s Discrimination Exposure in the World of Social Media

Handbook of Children and Prejudice

How the Racism Baked Into Technology Hurts Teens

The Atlantic

Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery

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Google ‘fixed’ its racist algorithm by removing gorillas from its image-labeling tech

The Verge

Google's Solution to Accidental Algorithmic Racism: Ban Gorillas

The Guardian

Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery

Harvard University

The Child Labor Behind AI

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The Dimensions of Data Labor: A Road Map for Researchers, Activists, and Policymakers to Empower Data Producers

Association for Computing Machinery

The Child Labor Driving AI Development

The Progressive Magazine

Unpaid Data Labor

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‘A betrayal’: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in airstrike

The Guardian

Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Data Leverage Digital Library; Association for Computer Machinery

Ensuring the Tech Economy Benefits All of its Stakeholders

The Data Dividends Initiative

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Data Union

Data Union DAO

Could Houthis Shut off The Internet?

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Could the Houthis sabotage undersea cables?

BBC

Islamophobia, Big Data & The AI Boom

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How Big Tech Sells War on our Communities

Big Tech Sells War

The NSA Continues to Violate Americans' Internet Privacy Rights | ACLU

ACLU

Indigenous Knowledge

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The Hunter-Gatherer Groups at the Heart of a Microbiome Gold Rush

Technology Review

Isolated Indigenous People as Happy as Wealthy Western Peers – Study

The Guardian

Is AI the New Plastic?

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AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. Now there are calls for action

Associated Press News

Without Small Data, AI in Health Care Contributes to Disparities

Scientific American

Social Media Algorithm Auditing

Harvard School of Public Health

AI is using vast amounts of water

The Independent

Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes

Technology Review

AI Hyperrealism

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AI Hyperrealism: Why AI Faces Are Perceived as More Real Than Human Ones

Sage Journals

Social Influence and Political Mobilization

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A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization - Nature

Nature

Military AI Use

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Escalation Risks from Language Models in Military and Diplomatic Decision-Making

Cornell University

Societal Guardrails for AI?

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Societal guardrails for AI? Perspectives on what we know about public opinion on artificial intelligence

Oxford Academic

Machine Bias

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Machine Bias

Pro Publica

Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions

State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections

Automation's Impact

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A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry

NPR

New Study Examines Automation’s Potential Impact on the San Pedro Bay Port Complex

UCLA Labor Center

Tech Companies Use Exploited Labor to Build AI

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Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project

The Intercept

We are Google and Amazon workers. We condemn Project Nimbus | Anonymous Google and Amazon workers

The Guardian

Google, Oracle, Amazon and Microsoft awarded Pentagon cloud deal of up to $9 billion combined

CNBC

Biases in Streaming Algorithms

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ARTIST GENDER REPRESENTATION IN MUSIC STREAMING

Biases in Streaming Algorithms