🔬 Research summary contributed by Alexandrine Royer, our Educational Program Manager. [Link to original paper + authors at the bottom] Overview: The predominance of feminized voice assistants points to AI’s … [Read more...] about Theorizing Femininity in AI: a Framework for Undoing Technology’s Gender Troubles (Research Summary)
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labour Demand (Research Summary)
Summary contributed by our researcher Alexandrine Royer, who works at The Foundation for Genocide Education. *Link to original paper + authors at the bottom. Overview: Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, in … [Read more...] about The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labour Demand (Research Summary)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Freedom, Flexibility, Precarity and Vulnerability in the Gig Economy in Africa (Research Summary)
Summary contributed by our researcher Alexandrine Royer, who works at The Foundation for Genocide Education. *Link to original paper + authors at the bottom. Overview: This paper lays out the on-the-ground … [Read more...] about Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Freedom, Flexibility, Precarity and Vulnerability in the Gig Economy in Africa (Research Summary)
Automating Informality: On AI and Labour in the Global South (Research Summary)
Summary contributed by Abhishek Gupta (@atg_abhishek), Founder and Principal Researcher of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. His book Actionable AI Ethics will be published in 2021.This piece is part of a series of paper … [Read more...] about Automating Informality: On AI and Labour in the Global South (Research Summary)
Research summary: Bring the People Back In: Contesting Benchmark Machine Learning
Summary contributed by our researcher Alexandrine Royer, who works at The Foundation for Genocide Education. *Authors of full paper & link at the bottom Mini-summary: The biases present in machine … [Read more...] about Research summary: Bring the People Back In: Contesting Benchmark Machine Learning