When is a cancer scare, a rejected mortgage loan, a false arrest, or predictive grading, more than a glitch in A.I.?
That's today's big question, and my guest is Meredith Broussard.
Meredith is a data journalist and associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology and the author of several books I loved, including More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender and Ability Bias in Tech, and Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.
Her academic research focuses on A.I. in investigative reporting and ethical A.I., with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good.
If you have ever turned on a computer or used the internet in some way to apply for something, or literally anything, this one is for you.
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INI Book Club:
• Chain Gang All Stars (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9780593469316) by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club
Links:
• Read Meredith's books: More Than A Glitch (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9780262548328) and Artificial Unintelligence (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9780262537018)
• Check out Meredith's website (https://meredithbroussard.com/) and follow her on social media (https://twitter.com/merbroussard)
• Get up to speed on A.I. ethics by reading: Weapons of Math Destruction (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9780262537018) , Algorithms of Oppression (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781479837243) , Automating Inequality (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781250215789) , Race After Technology (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781509526406) , Black Software (https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781665116305)
• Follow algorithm and bias influencers Avriel Epps (https://www.instagram.com/kingavriel/?hl=en) and Joel Bervell (https://www.instagram.com/joelbervell/?hl=en)
• Check out the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/) , NIST's AI Risk Management Framework (https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework) , GAO's Algorithmic Audit (https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106811.pdf) , and the Algorithmic Accountability Act (https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/algorithmic_accountability_act_of_2023_summary.pdf)
• Check out Encode Justice (https://encodejustice.org/)
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