• 
• 10 min
• Engadget
• 2021

This article provides an excerpt from a book detailing the “Brooksian Revolution,” a movement in the 1980s pressing the idea that the “intelligence” of AI should start from a foundation of acute awareness of its environment, rather than “typical” indicators of intelligence such as pure logic or problem solving. By principle, a reasoning machine-learning loop that operates off of a one-time perception of its environment is inherently disconnected from its environment.

• Singularity
• Scientific Innovation
• Machine Learning
• Robots

• Endgadget
• 2021

Article is an excerpt from book about the history of AI and the shift in AI research in 1990s from knowledge-based to context-based approaches to artificial intelligence.

• Computing Ethics Issues
• Machine Learning
• Robots

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• 5 min
• Big Think

This video, narrated by science fiction author Ken MacLeod, explains how the cultural critiques presented in science fiction can be helpful in guiding inventors through how they might invent ethically, and what the primary societal concerns of a certain invention would be. Uses the example of robots as representative of labor issues to make the case that while science fiction plays a role in inspiring inventors and engineers, it should also lead them to question how technologies can be deployed ethically in different societal contexts.

• Computing Ethics Issues
• Scientific Innovation
• Robots

• 
• 40 min
• New York Times
• 2021

As facial recognition technology becomes more prominent in everyday life, used by players such as law enforcement officials and private actors to identify faces by comparing them with databases, AI ethicists/experts such as Joy Buolamwini push back against the many forms of bias that these technologies show, specifically racial and gender bias. Governments often use such technologies callously or irresponsibly, and lack of regulation on the private companies which sell these products could lead society into a post-privacy era.

• Civil Surveillance
• Algorithmic Bias
• Computer Vision
• Biometrics

• 
• 40 min
• New York Times Magazine
• 2021

This article goes into extraordinary detail on the company Clearview AI, a company whose algorithm has crawled the public web to provide over 3 billion photos of faces with links that travel to the original source of each photo. Discusses the legality and privacy concerns of this technology, how the technology has already been used by law enforcement and in court cases, and the founding of the company. Private use of technology similar to that of Clearview AI could revolutionize society and may move us to the post-privacy era.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Computer Vision
• Biometrics

• 
• 7 min
• Slate
• 2021

A new law passed unanimously in Maine heavily restricts the contexts in which facial recognition technology can be deployed, putting significant guardrails around how it is used by law enforcement. Also, it allows citizens to sue if they believe the technology has been misused. This is a unique step in a time when several levels of government, all the way up to the federal government, are less likely to attach strict rules to the use of facial recognition technology, despite the clear bias that is seen in the wake of its use.

• Civil Surveillance
• Technology and Race
• Computer Vision
• Biometrics