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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#design #architecture #art +18 more
Accepting Applicants
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#design #human-computer interaction #art +23 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
Post Research

Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen chosen for TIME 100 Next 2019

Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.

Nov. 13, 2019
in Civic Media · Director's Fellows Program
#civic technology #politics #social change +3 more
Article Research

Artificial intelligence can be biased. Here’s what you should know.

Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.

via Frontline · Nov. 5, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +2 more
Research
Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#design #agriculture #art +26 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
Research
Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +32 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +47 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

#artificial intelligence #government #health +10 more
Article Research

AI: More than Human exhibition challenges our preconceptions

An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.

via Digital Journal · Aug. 4, 2019
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg) · Mediated Matter · Civic Media
#design #art #artificial intelligence +2 more
Project Research

Humanizing AI in Law (HAL)

The  Humanizing AI in Law (HAL) project aims to build the technical and legal foundations necessary to establish a due-pro...

in Ethics · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Chelsea Barabas · Karthik Dinakar +4 more
#artificial intelligence #government #social science +2 more
Article Research

Algorithm using racist drug war data to determine Missourians’ freedom

Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.

via FilterMag · July 29, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #social science #racial justice
Post Research

Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar and Colin Doyle

July 17, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #social science #racial justice
Project Research

Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +11 more
Article Research

Fortune's 40 Under 40

Joy Buolamwini has been selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40.”

via Fortune Magazine · July 11, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #government #technology +1 more
Article Research

Face recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI

Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.

via AP News · April 3, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

On recent research auditing commercial facial analysis technology

An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.

via Medium · March 26, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

AI experts question Amazon’s facial-recognition technology

More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.

via The New York Times · April 3, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

Women built the tech industry. Then they were pushed out.

Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.

via The Washington Post · Feb. 19, 2019
in Civic Media
#ethics #computer science #technology +1 more
Article Research

A crucial step for averting AI disasters

Tech companies working on artificial intelligence find that a diverse staff can help avoid biased algorithms that cause public embarrassment

via The Wall Street Journal · Feb. 13, 2019
in Affective Computing · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #ethics #racial justice
Research
Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

‘Uncovering Hidden Pathways’ focuses on future minority youth in STEM

Jaleesa Trapp led a discussion at her alma mater about antiracist approaches to engaging young people from marginalized groups in STEM.

via The Tacoma Ledger · Feb. 4, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#technology #engineering #racial justice
Article Research

Artificial intelligence has a problem with gender and racial bias. Here’s how to solve it.

Joy Buolamwini’s essay is featured in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.

via TIME · Feb. 7, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #social science #racial justice
Project Research

Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...

in Civic Media
Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +8 more
Article Research

Supposedly ‘fair’ algorithms can perpetuate discrimination

"We must provide a mechanism for civil society to be informed and engaged in the way in which algorithms are used."

via Wired · Feb. 5, 2019
in Director's Office
#social change #industry #civic action +1 more
Article Research

Amazon is pushing facial technology that a study says could be biased

Amazon’s system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.

via The New York Times · Jan. 24, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #racial justice
Post Research

Earthrise, 50 years later

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative

Dec. 24, 2018
in Space Exploration Initiative · Space Enabled
#space #climate change #racial justice
Project Research

Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +2 more
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more

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