Amos Toh

@AmosToh

senior researcher, interested in the algorithms you aren’t. he/him 🇸🇬🇺🇸

New York, NY
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    Nov 10

    1/ has a report out on the EU's proposal for an AI Act, and what it means for the social safety net. TL;DR: the Act is ill-equipped to protect people from flawed algorithms that strip them of the benefits they need to make ends meet or find a job🧵:

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    11 hours ago

    This essay cut deep. My mother had me at 21 — her 3rd child. As someone who has experienced the knitting together of maternal love with loss of self from the perspective of a child, Tierce is right: children also deserve parents who had choices.

    "I knew I should have had more choices. My personhood was erased and overwritten with MOTHER before I even knew who I was." In our cover story this week, the writer Merritt Tierce reflects on the abortion she didn't have.
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    Dec 2

    The holidays shouldn’t be a time to recharge. They should be a time to celebrate. If work is exhausting people to the point that they’re using their time off to recover, you might have a burnout culture. A healthy organization doesn’t leave people drained in the first place.

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  4. Dec 1

    Come for the wheeling and dealing on the EU Act, stay for the fascinating window into supercomputing politics: Another awesome edition of the AI: Decoded newsletter by

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    Nov 30

    I stopped sharing job ads that don't include a salary range because it's always historically marginalised populations who get the worst deal with this lack of transparency. Smh at the number of orgs who say they are committed to equity & inclusion while not publishing that info.

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  6. Nov 30

    . joins and > 100 civil society orgs to call on the to put human rights first in their effort to regulate artificial intelligence. Some key asks: ✅a clear ban on harmful social scoring ✅fundamental rights impact assessments ✅safeguards against emerging threats

    "Civil society statement. EU Artificial intelligence Act for fundamental rights"
    1/6📣The Artificial Intelligence Act MUST put our first! Today, & 114 civil society orgs launch a collective statement to call for an that addresses the structural, societal, political & economic impacts of uses.
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    Nov 29

    The Slovenian presidency of wants to ban AI-powered social scoring systems from private companies. The compromise text (h/t ) also excludes national security and R&D from the scope of the AI Act.

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    Nov 28

    Nothing to see here folks. These are a completely evidenced based policies… 🤷🏽‍♀️

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    Nov 26

    It's hard not to see this as South Africa being punished for the fact that it has world-class scientists, doing some of the best Covid surveillance in the world, and is transparent about what they find.

    So I'm in my 3d hour on a tarmac at Schipol. While my flight from Jo'burg was somewhere over Chad, Europe went into variant panic; by the time we landed, we weren't allowed off the plane. They won't even let a catering truck bring us water.
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  10. Nov 24

    Great, chilling piece from on the eerie parallels between how millions of Uighurs, and millions of Palestinians, are tracked, profiled and punished. The lede says it all.

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  11. Nov 24

    This is spot on - while we are rightly concerned about the abusive potential of AI and other “sophisticated” tech, it’s important not to lose sight of how seemingly mundane tech infrastructure can cause immense harm

    What happens when 'technical decisions' for ID databases encode social biases & normative judgements? For I wrote abt Pakistan's Digital ID database design & the need to pay attention to seemingly banal tech choices of database engineers
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    Nov 23

    If you read 's report on / border, it seems there is no need to help people stranded on Polish side of border. Today's report exposes that suffering and abuses are committed and humanitarian help denied on both sides.

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    Nov 23

    | Use of facial recognition technology by police is dangerous , , write:

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    Nov 19

    Finally able to share the news! I am joining the FTC as a Senior Advisor on AI. Honored by the opportunity to contribute to the Agency’s critical work. And to work with (and learn from!) this stellar team , and John Kwoka.

    FTC Chair Lina M. Khan announces new appointments in agency leadership positions:
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    Nov 22

    Let’s hope the tidal wave of concern about Carrie’s over to other cases, issues. erasing allegations of sexual assault is grotesque.

    Athletes, sports fans and sponsors should speak up for , and use their leverage to address rights abuses in China ahead of . The Olympics should be a celebration of humanity, not an opportunity to sportswash crimes against humanity.
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    Nov 21

    Cameroon just published a COVID spending audit report that confirms worst fears of anti-corruption activists when pandemic hit. Story is also window into the good, bad, & ugly of IMF’s role.

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  17. Nov 20

    Keep coming back to this insight from on and corporate capture: “[BigTech] companies control the tooling, development environments, languages, & software that define the AI research process—they make the water in which AI research swims.”

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    Nov 19

    Thrilled to share this news - I am joining the FTC as an Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, along with colleagues old and new and John Kwoka. I’m honored to be a part of this team and to serve the Agency in its critical work.

    FTC Chair Lina M. Khan announces new appointments in agency leadership positions:
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    Nov 19

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  20. Nov 19

    PSA: please never fly if you can help it. My flight from Brussels to New York was diverted to Dublin because of engine failure and we’ve been stranded for hours and haven’t heard from anyone about how we’re getting home. Staff were also rude and uncommunicative.

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    Nov 18

    Really nice reporting from here on why it's dangerous (not just dumb) to focus on the Chinese "social credit" boogeyman in AI regulation:

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