The Finnish social security agency’s response to our article is here. Robust transparency and genuinely meaningful public participation of communities that will be most impacted by these projects must be a critical next step. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...
Numerous examples of the use of AI by governments to meet these punitive goals has shown repeatedly that it only fuels discrimination that targets the most marginalised groups. Any technology that, at its core, is developed for the punitive purposes of control will cause devastating harm.
In December, @marikosato.bsky.social and I wrote a piece (in Finnish) sounding the alarm about Finnish authorities’ plans to digitalize and integrate AI into the management of social security entitlements, including for the purposes of fraud detection. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
Joulun alla julkaistiin @amnestyfinland.bsky.social vieraskynä Kelan suunnitelmista käyttää tekoälyä sosiaaliturvan väärinkäytösten seulomisessa ja siihen liittyvistä ihmisoikeusriskeistä.
Kirjoitus kirvoitti mukavasti kiinnostusta ja keskustelua, jota aiheesta tarvitaan.
www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
I don’t how it’s so normalised that some western countries will have compulsory conscription and monarchs as sitting heads of state and still get to call themselves democracies.
Just give me a good long form micro history and my day is made. Morning read: the dishwasher and how it came to be, and questions of gendered labour. 🤓
I love everything about this piece by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, and bonus is also learning about the Alter Magazine. Read it on a bigger screen, if you're able.
altermag.com/articles/the...
I was afraid of this, and here we are:
"AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge"
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
"We need to oppose this attempt to roll back protections in the name of simplification and tell the Commission that our human rights are not for sale", writes @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social 👇
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
🚨Today, @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @amnesty.org are publishing the 2,700 docs we’ve forced the NYPD to release on their use of facial recognition against New Yorkers🚨
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this…
@jumaane.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Reminder: Over a month on, the Delhi High Court has yet to deliver its bail verdict (reserved on 9 July) for anti‑CAA activists—Umar Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Khalid Saifi & others—jailed for close to/more than 5 years without trial in a Delhi riots case
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
The implicit threat behind the AI hype is the paradigm of Modernity; behind the relentless chiding to use AI for everything is that if you don't, you will no longer be civilised, no longer be part of a fully developed humanity.
Is everyone just rewatching Anthony Bourdain this August?
In an attempt to escape the haze of work -which is how I am describing my weeknights these days- a dear friend and I watched Sister Midnight yesterday and it was just so good. Absurd and hilarious.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has banned 25 books. The 25 books should actually be on everyone’s to-read list. I’m going to make my way through the ones I haven’t read yet, and so should you.
thewire.in/government/j...
This has disproportionately impacted already marginalized communities and individuals, in particular people with disabilities and older people.
This report looks at how the UK's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)’s constant testing, rolling out, and rolling back of costly artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies fo social security schemes has created an inaccessible system for people who are at risk of poverty in the UK.
New Report: Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab have launched a new research report today, ‘Too Much Technology, Not Enough Empathy’: How the UK’s push to digitalize social security harms human rights.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!
This must have been incredibly stressful. Really happy you were able to deliver it despite just outrageous treatment by organisers.
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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This latest shameful US veto – one in a long list – gives Israel the green light to continue its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. It allows Israel to continue starving Palestinian civilians and creating conditions of life meant to bring about their destruction.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Look forward to getting stuck in. Such important work by @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
