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  • Indie Wire
  • 2021
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How Black Storytellers Are Using XR and Afro-Futurism to Explore Ancestral Identity

New virtual exhibits displayed through Web XR, or Extended Reality available over the network of internet browsers, allow Black artists and creators to present ancestral knowledge and stories while providing a new basis on which AI could be trained. This use of AI leads to an imagination free of colonial or racist constructs that may otherwise be present in digital media.

  • Indie Wire
  • 2021
  • 10 min
  • Slate
  • 2021
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How a Dead Professor Is Teaching a University Art History Class

Using the tale of Art History Professor François-Marc Gagnon, whose video lectures were used to instruct students even after his death, this article raises questions about how technologies such as digital memory and data streaming for education in the time of coronavirus may ultimately undervalue the work of educators.

  • Slate
  • 2021
  • 10 min
  • Gizmodo
  • 2021
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Developing Algorithms That Might One Day Be Used Against You

Physicist Brian Nord, who learned about deep learning algorithms through his research on the cosmos, warns against how developing algorithms without proper ethical sensibility can lead to these algorithms having more negative impacts than positive ones. Essentially, an “a priori” or proactive approach to instilling AI ethical sensibility, whether through review institutions or ethical education of developers, is needed to guard against privileged populations using algorithms to maintain hegemony.

  • Gizmodo
  • 2021
  • 7 min
  • CNN
  • 2021
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South Korea has used AI to bring a dead superstar’s voice back to the stage, but ethical concerns abound

The South Korean company Supertone has created a machine learning algorithm which has been able to replicate the voice of beloved singer Kim Kwang-seok, thus performing a new single in his voice even after his death. However, certain ethical questions such as who owns artwork created by AI and how to avoid fraud ought to be addressed before such technology is used more widely.

  • CNN
  • 2021
  • 7 min
  • Wall Street Journal
  • 2021
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Google Built the Pixel 6 Camera to Better Portray People With Darker Skin Tones. Does It?

Google’s new Pixel 6 smartphone claims to have “the world’s most inclusive camera” based on its purported ability to more accurately reflect darker skin tones in photographs, a form of digital justice notably absent from previous iterations of computational photography across the phones of various tech monopolies.

  • Wall Street Journal
  • 2021
  • 7 min
  • The Verge
  • 2020
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What a machine learning tool that turns Obama white can (and can’t) tell us about AI bias

PULSE is an algorithm which can supposedly determine what a face looks like from a pixelated image. The problem: more often than not, the algorithm will return a white face, even when the person from the pixelated photograph is a person of color. The algorithm works through creating a synthetic face which matches with the pixel pattern, rather than actually clearing up the image. It is these synthetic faces that demonstrate a clear bias toward white people, demonstrating how institutional racism makes its way thoroughly into technological design. Thus, diversity in data sets will not full help until broader solutions combatting bias are enacted.

  • The Verge
  • 2020
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