The Long Road to Self-Driving Trucks
|| Transportation Applications || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
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Will robots and AI take your job? The economic and political consequences of automation
|| Future of Work || Blog Post || Medium (5-10 min)
This article summarizes the worries from the findings of multiple studies around the impact of tech on future of work, and discusses how these changes might impact politics as the number of jobs being taken over increases.
To Invade Homes, Tech Is Trying to Get in Your Kitchen
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
How tech and appliance makers are targeting the kitchen with smart home devices in order to deepen ties with customers.
How Google Maps Changes Borders Based on Your Location
|| Misinformation || Video || Medium (5-10 min)
Much of the world uses Google Maps as their primary geographic reference tool. But what happens when multiple nations claim ownership of a disputed territory?
A comparative study of fairness-enhancing interventions in machine learning
|| Algorithmic Bias || Report || Short (5 min or less)
This paper seeks to study how computerized decision-making techniques compare to one another, and what accounts for the differences.
Facial Recognition is Accurate, if You're a White Guy
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Commercial software is nearly flawless at telling the gender of white men, a study says, but not so for darker-skinned women.
Every study we could find on what automation will do to jobs, in one chart
|| Future of Work || Data Table Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A chart of study predictions about job creation/loss as a result of automation, including when the study was performed, by who, the scale of the study, and predictions.
SamSam Ransomware Hits Hospitals, City Councils, ICS Firms
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
SamSam Ransomware group targets hospitals, a city council group, and an industrial control system firm in the beginning of 2018. The article provides brief details on the scam.
James Damore has sued Google. His infamous memo on women in tech is still nonsense.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued his former employer.
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.”
How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Apple, Google, Microsoft and other giants are accelerating their efforts to remake health care with new tracking apps, sensors and other tools.
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook among others were found to be limiting job ads to limited age groups.
The Pros and Cons of Health Websites
|| Health and Medical Applications Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
While health websites can help people identify and understand their medical condition and offer emotional support, it can also lead to unnecessary anxiety and be riddled with "fake news".
UC Berkeley professor helps create viral video to warn about killer robots
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article Video || Short (5 min or less)
The seven minute video features a dramatic story about tiny drones that are programmed to kill and require no human guidance. In the fictitious story, the technology was developed for good, but is taken over by unknown forces that launch mass killings.
Slaughterbots
|| Robotics Applications || Video || Medium (5-10 min)
Slaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria.
When an Algorithm Helps Send You to Prison
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
A case involving a biased computer program designed to assign sentences.
She’s 26, and Brought Down Uber’s C.E.O. What’s Next?
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Interview with Susan Fowler, the author of a blog post that exposed problematic behaviour during her time at Uber.
The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A discussion about the outlook of what misinformation might look like in the coming decade.
A Series of Delays and Major Errors Led to Massive Equifax Breach
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A series of costly delays and crucial errors caused Equifax to remain unprotected for months against one of the most severe Web application vulnerabilities in years, the former CEO for the credit reporting service said in written testimony investigating the massive breach that
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
Author Jean M. Twenge examines how smartphone and tablet access has impacted the "iGen" (those who grew up around these technologies), including its impact on loneliness, depression, sleep, and other aspects.