Musings on technology and justice
Wired recently posted a piece on several of the ethics-related workshops and talks at this year’s NIPS conference. The article includes coverage of the Black in A.I. and Woman in Machine Learning workshops as well as talks like Victoria Krakovna’s on interpretability for A.I. safety.
Read More Wired article on ethics in AI systemsThe Black in AI workshop at this year’s NIPS conference could be among the most important events in artificial intelligence this year. Why? If you think the AI in your phone, car, or bathroom is free of racist or sexist biases, then respectfully give this op-ed by mathematician Cathy O’Neil a close read and begin educating yourself. Further, […]
Read More Black in A.I.We journey to Lexington, South Carolina to see witness an eclipse. My wife talks to a couple — two White women from Charlottesville, perhaps in their 60’s — they lament the terror that descended upon their peaceful, thoughtful town. A Jewish family lies on the grass next to us, the father discovering the beauty and […]
Read More Labels have been eclipsedI’m building a list of Artificial Intelligence related activity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). If you would like to add to it, just send me an email. Why am I doing this? Last month in AI and the Souls of Black Folk, I tried to make a case that people from all walks of […]
Read More Artificial Intelligence at Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs)A summary of recent NLP work to enhance support happiness.
Read More May the Bot Be With You: How Algorithms are Supporting Happiness at WordPress.comThe impact of AI on communities of color — particularly through job displacement and policing — is now undeniable. Given that HBCUs have historically been on the forefront of technology education for the Black community, I am proposing to build a list of current activities (courses, research, seminars, clubs, etc.) at the HBCUs relevant to […]
Read More AI and the Souls of Black FolkOne of the many reasons it’s a joy to work at Automattic
Read More Welcoming New Colleagues — a Data-Based StoryThis weekend I was trying to wake my old brain up by looking and the clever and mind-bending problems from my graduate school. I have really gotten excited about Madhur Tulsi‘s Mathematical Toolkit class — as a “data scientist”/”machine learning engineer” (I sometimes wonder what these designations mean — heck I just am grateful to have been able […]
Read More Scheme in 33 MiniaturesSeveral months ago I read Timothy Snyder’s award winning Black Earth, an important but difficult book on the horrific destruction of millions of lives in the “bloodlands” of Eastern Europe during the Second World War. Despite the gravity of the book, there was a deep and eternal hope that I found in its stories of the ordinary […]
Read More Reverence for the righteousNext week, the team I am on at Automattic is meeting up in Tel-Aviv to attend the NetSci X conference. There is so much to be excited about — the opportunity to spend 10 days with colleagues, the interesting talks on network theory and analysis, the opportunity to visit the holy sites of the Bahá’í faith […]
Read More Books on a plane
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