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Researching the social implications of AI. Co-founder at NYU | Principal Researcher MSR-NYC | Distinguished Research Professor NYU |

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    Sep 7

    Thrilled to launch a big project today: ANATOMY OF AN AI SYSTEM. It's a large map & long-form essay about Amazon's Echo, and the full stack of capital, labor, and natural resources used in AI. It's a collab with , who is a visual genius ✨

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  2. Sep 14

    Oh my - the newspaper edition of the Anatomy project showed up at today! ping 👀 📰 💥

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  3. Retweeted
    Sep 10

    My forthcoming paper: Algorithms at Work: Productivity Monitoring Platforms and Wearable Technology as the New Data-Centric Research Agenda for Employment & Labor Law now here: . Get it while it's hot!

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  4. Sep 12

    And that’s the aim of the Anatomy of AI map and essay: to trace an outline of the bigger picture. 🗺️

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  5. Sep 12

    So human workers are increasingly being surveilled and exploited inside systems of data capture and global natural resource extraction. We need to consider the wider context if we are ever going to get governance and regulation right.

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  6. Sep 12

    Vest or cage, there’s a bigger point here. It's about the future of work in an algorithmically-organized space, be it a warehouse, a car or behind a screen. And it ain’t pretty. Eg:

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  7. Sep 12

    The worker cage never got made. Instead, Amazon execs say they decided to make employees wear vests covered in sensors so they don’t get run over by robots. Ohhhhkay...

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  8. Sep 12

    The Amazon cage thing is not new. The patent was filed in 2013, granted in ‘16. We dug it up in our research on all the patents that went into the Amazon Echo. You can search them too – USPTO has 'em on a public site. Here’s the cage patent:

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  9. Sep 12

    Whoa... looks like our Anatomy of AI research spawned some viral news. A bunch of stories focused on the ‘worker cage’ patent. So here’s some context:

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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 9

    This beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithium

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    Sep 6

    The vasculature of an apple 🍏🍎🍏🍎

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  12. Sep 7

    For London folks, you can see it at 's new show on AI. The map is printed on a *big* wall, and there's a limited edition newspaper with the essay you can take home with you 📰👀

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  13. Sep 6

    IBM calls their new program ‘Not Learning From History’

    SCOOP: With secret access to NYPD CCTV created software which tags people based on their skin tone + hair/clothing color. IBM gave NYPD access, then pitched them on a new AI product which identifies people on camera as "Black," "White," and "Asian":
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  14. Sep 4

    Today is the first day for the inaugural postdoctoral research fellows. Couldn't be happier to welcome to NYU! ✨🎉📚 🎉✨

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    Sep 3

    Yay! becomes the second AI conference to offer childcare (the first is 's annual symposium 💅🏼) How about we make this the new normal?

    Heads-up attendees: there are childcare grants available this year!
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  17. Aug 29

    Here's the latest on CBP using facial recognition at airports. US citizens are meant to have 'opt out' but kiosks now demand photos. The rest of us have no options. Now that data is being shared with airports & airlines for 'business opportunities'

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  18. Aug 28

    Early histories of automation: ‘without the telephone girl’ - a 1889 invention for a selector that automated German telephone exchanges by the early 1900s.

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    Aug 22

    Announcing theme for the AI Now 2018 Symposium: “Ethics, Organizing, and Accountability” Site live: Join us on Oct. 16 in NYC, w/speakers Lucy Suchman, , , , , , , more to come

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  20. Aug 10

    Even Axon now admits that facial recognition shouldn't be used in policing. Could lead to "technical failures with disastrous outcomes"

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