PhD student in computer science @ UW - Madison
Interested in social issues related to machine learning, surveillance, and algorithmic decision-making, with a particular focus on privacy.
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The impending #TikTok ban is a free speech ban that protects US Big Tech incumbents. It's in no way fundamentally different or better than other countries banning US websites or apps to protect their incumbents.
If the US wanted to protect private information from the Chinese government, it could pass comprehensive privacy legislation and regulate data brokers.
Instead, if enforced, we'll see app store censorship and ISP-level blocks impacting millions, with no material privacy benefit.
The allegations set forth what appears to be a textbook example of using #ArtificialIntelligence to supercharge anticompetitive collusion, a capability that CDT has written about previously: https://cdt.org/insights/is-artificial-intelligence-a-new-gateway-to-anticompetitive-collusion/
CDT's George Slover digs into the charges, RealPage's response, the Sherman Act, and how algorithm-driven coordinated harms impact renters: https://cdt.org/insights/justice-department-goes-after-algorithm-fueled-price-fixing-in-apartment-rentals/ #AI #competition
hi, i wrote a post - "Defining AI".
Last week, I proposed a mass action for today (Tuesday, December 3, 2024), in which LGBTQ+ people and allies who have platforms of any kind would publish individual creations (writings, videos, podcasts, social media posts, etc.) with the shared title “LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.” While each of our creations would be in our own voices—as no single individual speaks on behalf of our entire community—we would all encourage our audiences to contact their representatives to let them know that we will not tolerate any more backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights!
📣 New: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies. This means "open" AI… isn't very open.
📄From me, @Mer__edith and @swest in Nature:
I hope this Apple employee wins this lawsuit against the company and brings a halt to a corporate control freak's insistence on knowing everything its employee is doing, at work and at home.
Pervasive bossware should be illegal, period. Congress, of course, is indifferent to privacy rights, and it's dangerous to rely on our increasingly right-wing courts for help.
Unions are still the best way forward for workers' rights.
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/02/2024/employee-lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-spying-on-its-workers
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