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OCTOBER 10, 2023

This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” They also shared an entrepreneurial spirit, supporting one another’s tech startups.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. And I think this is what we’ll talk about a little bit in today’s conversation in the sense that there’s no real way to know where data go once they’re created about you. Are they people?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Joy Buolamwini ‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. million views to date.

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APRIL 21, 2023

An expert on the Internet, digital technology, law, and public policy, he regularly contributes to public discussions about what digital tech is doing to us and what we should do about it—most recently around the governance of AI and the incentives that shape major social media platforms. His legal work includes working on Eldred v.

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