Asilomar AI Principles
Robotics Applications || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
The Asilomar AI principles, as drafted during the 2017 Asilomar conferece. They are a set of principles to guide the development of future artificial intelligence.
Blog Post
What It’s Like to Be a Black Woman in Tech: A Q&A with Kaya Thomas
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
In this Q&A with former Facebook employee Kaya Thomas, she discusses what it’s been like to work as a Black woman in tech in her internships and what top companies should be doing to attract minority candidates like her.
Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
The speech given by 2019 Barlow/Pioneer award winner Danah Boyd about reckoning with how she benefited from men whose actions have helped uphold a patriarchal system that has hurt so many people.
Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Blog Post || Medium (5-10 min)
Susan Fowler's blog post about her experience at Uber, outlining the sexism she experienced while on the team.
The Algorithms Aren’t Biased, We Are
|| Algorithmic Bias || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
Article warning about bias and how it can appear. Includes some illustrative examples, and information based on academic research on “algorithmic bias.”
Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem
|| Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
About a University of Washington research study looking at how people spread rumors online during crisis events, from natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes as well as man-made events such as mass shootings and terrorist attacks.The study primarily focused on Twitte
The Surprising Nuance Behind the Russian Troll Strategy
|| Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
Some of the same mechanisms that make online organizing so powerful also make us particularly vulnerable in these spaces, to tactics that seed misinformation from malicious actors.