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    Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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    Today, @theintercept published an exposé by Rodrigo Ochigame (a PhD candidate at MIT) on the invention of "ethical AI" by big tech. https://theintercept.com/2019/12/20/mit-ethical-ai-artificial-intelligence/ … Here's why I think it's important to read this piece and share it widely. 1/

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      2. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        Like many computer science researchers, I watched with confusion as the field of "fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in artificial intelligence" (FATE) was swiftly birthed in 2017. 2/

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      3. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        I don't work in the area, but I work adjacent to it. In the summer of 2017, I interned at Google Brain on visualizing machine learning. I saw FATE-focused initiatives, institutes, partnerships, and nonprofits spring up at major institutions after that summer. 3/

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      4. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        I saw many well-intentioned early grad students, as well as many senior faculty looking for a new cause, sucked into working in "ethics in AI." Why was everyone all of a sudden working on this stuff? 4/

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      5. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        Given that algorithmic injustice has existed since, perhaps, the dawn of computing, I didn't think American computer science academics had suddenly started caring en masse—nor that algorithmic injustice was simply another "technical problem" that academics could solve. 5/

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      6. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        Regardless, in the last three years, work done under the aegis of promoting "fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics" has become enormously influential in setting big tech and US policy agendas. 6/

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      7. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        Today, we find out that the language of "AI ethics" has been a smokescreen for corporate lobbying. Big tech groomed academia to develop technical self-regulations to avoid legal regulation. Why? Profit. Read Rodrigo's exposé for the receipts. 7/https://theintercept.com/2019/12/20/mit-ethical-ai-artificial-intelligence/ …

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      8. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        Seriously, you won't find this amount of dishing anywhere else. Where few others would dare, Rodrigo has bravely come forth to illuminate the collusion between corporate, academic, and military pushers of "ethical AI." 8/

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      9. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        Do you care about how corporate profit agendas shape the research, policymaking, and national conversations around the software that governs your life and that is deployed against enemies of the state? Read this piece. 9/

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      10. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        This piece is a great counterpoint to the argument of technological determinism: "If we don't build it, someone else will." Perhaps interrogate who planted the thought that "it," whatever technology, was worth building in the first place? 10/

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      11. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        Finally: this is not new! In the 1970s and 80s, the US private insurance industry invented the idea of "actuarial fairness" to protect itself from charges of discrimination by activists and evade legal regulation, as Ochigame et al. have written earlier. Sound familiar? 11/

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      12. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 20 Dec 2019
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        For more, check out their paper "Beyond Legitimation: Rethinking Fairness, Interpretability, and Accuracy in Machine Learning": 12/https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ue5knrlvbxiavy/Ochigame%20et%20al%20-%20Beyond%20Legitimation.pdf?dl=0 …

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      13. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 21 Dec 2019
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        Katherine Ye Retweeted Maybe: Fred Benenson

        Important note (via @rg9119):https://twitter.com/fredbenenson/status/1208459945919700992 …

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        Maybe: Fred BenensonVerified account @fredbenenson
        Immediately heard from a number of people that they feel like this Intercept piece isn’t telling the whole story. And then there’s this: https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1208434972564037633 …
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      14. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 21 Dec 2019
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        I boosted this piece because it rings true with my + friends' experiences in CS academia & bc it starts an important conversation about influence + ideas. But I think it's important to note the tension b/t the author's intent with the piece and the impact it may actually have.

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      15. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 21 Dec 2019
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        Katherine Ye Retweeted Maybe: Fred Benenson

        Seconding @fredbenenson's point that this is a complicated take, and to center voices from folks with other lived experiences in the conversation.https://twitter.com/fredbenenson/status/1208459946800508928 …

        Katherine Ye added,

        Maybe: Fred BenensonVerified account @fredbenenson
        Which is to say: this sounds like a complicated take and it’s worth remembering journalists and publishers have their own incentives at play. Untangling Joi’s legacy at the Media Lab is going to take a long time.
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      16. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 21 Dec 2019
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        A friend in the FAT* community adds that they think the piece flattens complex issues around incrementalism vs reform in the field, but that it's hard to have a public conversation about the field's struggles with power, because it requires disclosing even more insider knowledge.

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      17. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 22 Dec 2019
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        Lots of complicated conversations happening now around this piece. I want to second @gleemie's call to center grassroots orgs that are led by the folks who are most affected by algorithmic injustice—as the writer does! https://twitter.com/gleemie/status/1208793442509152258 …pic.twitter.com/D80lMXQHtQ

        Worse, there seemed to be a mismatch between the Partnership’s recommendations and the efforts of a grassroots coalition of organizations fighting jail expansion, including the movement Black Lives Matter, the prison abolitionist group Critical Resistance (where I have volunteered), and the undocumented and queer/trans youth-led Immigrant Youth Coalition. The grassroots coalition argued, ...
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      18. Katherine Ye‏ @hypotext 22 Dec 2019
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        Katherine Ye Retweeted Lilly Irani

        And to focus on the structural forces at work in shaping the discourse around "ethics in AI."https://twitter.com/gleemie/status/1208789520172253184 …

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        Lilly Irani @gleemie
        So what it missing? And does it change the argument the corporations prefer ethics based regulation to banning certain technologies and fund academia to strengthen their case? https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1208434972564037633 …
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