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I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic
When predictive technologies systematically discriminate against people of color, adolescents are especially vulnerable, @kingavriel writes. on.theatln.tc/E1AiarF
My family and I are safe, but we did have to evacuate yesterday afternoon due to the wildfires. Unsure of the status of our home at this point. Thank you to everyone checking on us. Holding all of you tight who are also impacted. Watching my city burn is heartbreaking.
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How does the use of facial recognition affect children in their developmental stages? Dr. Avriel Epps (@kingavriel), a @Cornell University Postdoctoral Fellow, studies how bias in predictive technologies impacts identity development. Listen to her insightful conversation at the full live stream on @AJLUnited's YouTube page: youtube.com/live/3rU5CxYhLzs…
Be sure to submit your story if you're flying this summer to hold TSA accountable: ➡️ FLY.AJL.ORG
#FreedomFlyers✈️
RT @AJLUnited: Meet the panelists of the Freedom Flyers Summit #OptOutClub. Have you signed up for our live-stream event yet? ➡ https://t.…
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One week to go until our #FreedomFlyers✈️ Summit kicks off! From July 15-19, we’ll be hosting a series of events to highlight the importance of opting out of TSA’s facial recognition technology.
Participate in daily activities to submit TSA scorecards, and make your voice heard. Don’t miss our culminating livestream event on July 19th with a panel featuring @jovialjoy and others with exciting prizes. We will host special guests including @wewatchwatchers, author of Dark Matters, @kingavriel, @Cornell University Civic Science Postdoctoral Fellow, and @evan_greer, Executive Director of @fightfortheftr — see you there!
➡️ RSVP bit.ly/optoutclub
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An honor to share the stage at the @LAPublicLibrary with @merbroussard, @PopTechWorks and @kingavriel to discuss #AI and #Inequality. Vid here -
youtube.com/live/ol_RlxcWoy8
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Online safety for children must be redefined and lawmakers must recognize children as active data laborers in order to build a more equitable digital realm. @kingavriel #Technology #AI #ChildLabor
progressive.org/op-eds/the-c…
I'm incredibly proud to share an op-ed I wrote for The Progressive that argues that child labor is fueling AI development.
progressive.org/op-eds/the-c…
I believe the piece comes at a critical point when many Americans are paying attention to the plight of children in central Africa who are at the center of a struggle over natural resources that power technological innovation.
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For those interested in AI, this is a fantastic primer by @AINowInstitute on the infrastructure needed to make AI work. Think: chips and compute plus the geopolitics, institutions, markets, and politics that make it all happen. ainowinstitute.org/publicati…
I’m honored to be a #PublicVoices Fellowship on Technology in the Public Interest in partnership with @TheOpEdProject and @macfound! This is how we change who writes history.
Join me—there are workshops open to the public too: theopedproject.org/workshops
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"How do we combat or dismantle structural oppression in technological tools?"
Ph.D. candidate @kingavriel studies how human-created technologies hold real-world biases and influence educational outcomes.
gse.harvard.edu/ideas/news/2…
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“…companies that use massive amounts of data about us are mostly interested in surveilling and controlling our behaviors in the same way that cops are.”
Avriel Epps-Darling @kingavriel from @blmgrassroots on the fight for abolition within Big Tech during #BLMTurns10!
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“People don’t realize that ‘the cloud’ is real...” says Aurora Gómez, ...“People are not aware of the amount of water that goes into watching a kitten meme.”
Meanwhile @JeffDean was mad cause our #Section3 talked about the environmental impacts of LLMs.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Thank you to @kingavriel and Kashyap Rajesh @encodejustice for the feature in their new op-ed "Gen Z's tech activism paves the way for change" @voicemaguk!
Here’s to a future of increased representation and accountability in tech development.
voicemag.uk/blog/12691/gen-z…
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If AI ethicists need a doctorate in CS to be qualified to critique AI, then AI researchers need to have a doctorate in ethics/humanities/philosophy/HCI/etc. to be qualified to build AI.
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🔥Regulate us, but not really
I've just left an in-person event with Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI's CEO & Chief Scientist) at Tel Aviv University, and these were my impressions:
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Anticipating harms of AI systems before deployment is a critical yet challenging task. We introduce AHA!, a generative framework that given a description of an AI system generates examples of possible harms.
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