Everyday Chaos
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Book Launch for UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye's Book 'Speech Police'
Cambridge Public Library Horizons Lecture Series More
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The use of algorithms in the judiciary has already raised significant questions about bias and fairness, and looking… More
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Global Access in Action
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The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives is raising pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these techn… More
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to… More
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Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of technology, examine and document the… More
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Ghost Work
How services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the… More
Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines
Are the algorithms that surface and rank your resume for job recruiters biased with respect to gender? More
Book Launch for UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye's Book 'Speech Police'
The social media have been accused of contributing to everything from terrorism to genocide. They have also been the… More
Everyday Chaos
In his new book, Everyday Chaos, David Weinberger points to accepted ways we work on the Internet that in fact undo our… More