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Kate Crawford

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[Wikipedia] Kate Crawford is an Australian researcher, writer and academic who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. She is the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institu

Quotes by Kate Crawford

Self-tracking using a wearable device can be fascinating.

Device

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We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias…

Artificial intelligence

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Big data sets are never complete.

Big

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While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

Best

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People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data…

Data

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There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak…

Big

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Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them,…

Data

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We urgently need more due process with the algorithmic systems influencing our lives. If you are given a score that jeopardizes your…

Data

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Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many 'intelligent' systems…

Discrimination

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Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new…

Books

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The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as…

AI

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Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it…

Artificial intelligence

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If you're not thinking about the way systemic bias can be propagated through the criminal justice system or predictive policing, then it's…

Bias

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We should have equivalent due-process protections for algorithmic decisions as for human decisions.

Decisions

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There is no quick technical fix for a social problem.

Fix

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Hidden biases in both the collection and analysis stages present considerable risks and are as important to the big-data equation as the…

Data

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Big Data is neither color-blind nor gender-blind. We can see how it is used in marketing to segment people.

Big

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Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure…

AI

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If you have rooms that are very homogeneous, that have all had the same life experiences and educational backgrounds, and they're all…

Education

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Vivametrica isn't the only company vying for control of the fitness data space. There is considerable power in becoming the default standard-setter…

Business

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Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

Always

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With big data comes big responsibilities.

Big

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Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms, and if they go unquestioned, they become part of the logic of everyday…

Digital

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It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their…

Data science

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The promoters of big data would like us to believe that behind the lines of code and vast databases lie objective and…

Behavior

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