Surveillance Tech & Biased AI: The ACLU Fight...

This week: Iranian propaganda gets a Lego makeover — and it's going viral. Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker) tracked down the collective behind the AI-animated videos flooding your feed. Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) was in a documentary, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocalopti ...  Show more

What drives a man to turn down half a million pounds at 18, test Mark Zuckerberg's sincerity over dinner, and wonder aloud if he can win a second Nobel Prize? For Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, the answer is a lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelli ...  Show more

Amazon, Apple and other tech companies are touting their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on their websites, and that's great, but actions speak louder than words. Hire people of color in prominent executive positions would go a lot further, argues Jefferson Graham ...  Show more

The Justice Department says the Louisville Police Department had a practice of stomping on civil rights, using excessive force, conducting illegal searches, making unlawful stops and discriminating against Black and Brown people. Plus: Officials pull back the curtain on the bigge ...  Show more

A secretive start-up promising the next generation of facial recognition software has compiled a database of images far bigger than anything ever constructed b ...

From August 4, 2018: Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens when these technologies are paired with artificial intelligence to produce hyper-realistic media of things that never happ ...