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Head of Policy Planning @OpenAI . Author of "Voices in the Code," book on democratizing AI:

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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My new book, Voices in the Code, shows how people remade the moral logic of a high stakes algorithm, using many of the tools described in today's White House Blueprint. (I wrote the book before starting to serve at the White House.)

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Voices in the Code

In Voices in the Code, scholar David G. Robinson tells the story of how one community built a life-and-death algorithm in an inclusive, accountable way. Between 2004 and 2014, a diverse group of

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Before there were many high stakes algorithms – before “AI ethics” was a thing – a doctor named Belding Scribner became an unwitting AI ethics pioneer. His story is out now in Slate, part of an excerpt from my new book.

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I'd like to tell you a story about how people built a life-or-death algorithm in a relatively inclusive, accountable way. It shows the promise and limits of our efforts to democratize AI. It's at the heart of my new book, Voices in the Code, out Sept. 8.

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I’m feeling grateful this morning (thread).

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OpenAI is nothing without its people

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1/ THREAD: You can go to prison based on software: breathalyzer software that says how much you've had to drink. Risk assessment software that says how likely you are to reoffend. Statistical genotyping software that gives confident conclusions where human analysts fear to tread.

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@andy_sellars Have followed this rule for a number of years. No manels. From my point of view, the problem in such cases is not that men are speaking, but rather that women are missing.

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i love the openai team so much

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In big data, you’re either fighting bias or letting it happen. @zephoria explains:

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Algorithms — rules expressed in numbers — often change the stories we tell about who people are. How can we understand that power, and use it for good? I reflect in a new piece for @radar , starting with the story of my own birth.

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Yes, I'm sure that's what it stands for.

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Some news: I'll shortly be taking a leave from @TeamUpturn to spend this academic year as a Visiting Scientist at @Cornell 's new AI Policy and Practice Initiative. I'm excited for what's next, even as I will miss the team we've built at Upturn (where I'll stay connected!).

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This is a great paper: Algorithms will never measure the static essence of a person, because we don't actually have stable selves.

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📢New paper out in Artificial Life journal 📢 This paper is central to my PhD thesis, it brings together embodied & enactive cog sci & complex systems to argue that ML predictive systems are scientifically problematic and ethically dubious.

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My latest: What can we learn from criminal justice about how (& how not!) to do data-driven predictions in gov't?

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💭❓[Thread:] How can the field of computing contribute to social change, without tacitly assuming that tomorrow's social structures will basically resemble the past? ⚡️

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Roles for Computing in Social Change

A recent normative turn in computer science has brought concerns about fairness, bias, and accountability to the core of the field. Yet recent scholarship has warned that much of this technical...

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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So, today, I’m feeling grateful to everyone who makes our world more accessible. People with disabilities whose painful encounters with a less accessible world helped to spark change. The activists and litigators and lobbyists. The designers and architects and entrepreneurs.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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I just published “Airbnb’s racism problem is much bigger than a few racist hosts.”

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Thread -- I'm thrilled to announce that, as of October 1, I'll be moving to Berkeley @SocSciMatrix as a Visiting Scholar. I'll be working on two research projects.

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THREAD: According to an important new study by Megan Stevenson, Kentucky's much-celebrated move to algorithmic risk assessment in bail hearings *did not* meaningfully increase in the fraction of accused people who are released before trial

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Ilya Sutskever

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I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.

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There was dignity and satisfaction in being able to do that. In being the one to bring the coffee. In being able to do it and remain relaxed and present with the people around me.

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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

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Even though I don’t read as “disabled” all the time — and even though I would’ve had maybe an 85% chance of success in a less accessible world — those accessible door handles and ramps made a profound difference for me today.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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PS I meant to add one other thing. No matter what your capacities are, accessible design makes more of life, more possibilities, accessible for you. And for everyone around.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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Each of us already gains, already has reason to be grateful for these things. That's how it seems to me.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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Some exciting news today

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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4/ There are many problems here: Courts, defense counsel, and even law enforcement can't check for mistakes. And for most of these tools, the evidence that the tool actually works comes from vendors themselves, not from credible third parties.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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I'm thrilled to share the Call for Papers for this year's @FAccTConference ! It's an honor to be part of the leadership team for this year's conference. Excited for the intellectual and practical conversations we'll have this year, particularly given the moment we're in.

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The ACM FAccT CFP is live! I'm so excited for this year's conference. + special thanks to our incredible 2021 program co-chairs! @gleemie Sampath Kannan @mmitchell_ai @DrDesmondPatton + @dgrobinson

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And, those accessible touches didn’t come easy. They are there because people worked hard to put them there, to make them mandatory. I remember when these long door handles started becoming more common.

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@Lin_Manuel @notesandkeys_ Took me a minute to realize this means singing, not healthcare. Which made me feel good.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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At #AINow , @dorianwarren quotes Bayard Rustin on race and automation:

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But here’s the thing: those door handles, and ramps, and kneeling curbs, are there for everyone. We all experience a range of abilities and limits throughout life.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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@merbroussard My book Voices in the Code explores how people can share hard moral choices in the design of an algorithm. It centers on a case study of kidney transplant — how organs are matched to patients — and draws lessons for other domains. (Russell Sage 2023)

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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Cash bail needs to be ended, not "fixed."

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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@AliBHamed Please do not do this. There is a major social movement underway to end this industry in all its forms in the US. All but two countries in the world reject cash bail as unjust (US and the Philippines are the exceptions)

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@AliBHamed Please do not do this. There is a major social movement underway to end this industry in all its forms in the US. All but two countries in the world reject cash bail as unjust (US and the Philippines are the exceptions)

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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#ColorofSurveillance @wewatchwatchers points to this tweet -- Sometimes 140 characters is more than enough.

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Then Google Maps was like, "turn right on Malcolm Ten Boulevard" and I knew there were no black engineers working there

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And every person who now looks at an accessible door handle or a kneeling curb and just sees a door handle, or a curb. You're making life better. Thank you. /thread

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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If you enjoy the excerpt, consider the book, which lands next week. The editors at @RussellSageFdn pushed me for something rich, yet short and readable. Judge for yourself!

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Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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2/ Almost all of this code is secret. My colleague @jlkoepke wrote about this last year in the context specifically of DNA mixtures --

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Should secret code help convict?

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously quipped that “software is eating the world,” taking over functions we used to…

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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. @benjaminwittes on Trump and Carson

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Worth reading in full

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Looking forward to joining @StanfordHAI on Friday to talk about the fascinating story of an algorithm with high human stakes: The US kidney allocation system.

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HAI Weekly Seminar with David Robinson - Governing an Algorithm in the Wild

David Robinson is a Visiting Scientist at the AI Policy and Practice Initiative at Cornell University's College of Computing and Information Science. He is also co-founder and Managing Director of...

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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. @TeamUpturn is recruiting a Summer Fellow! We've got some fascinating assignments in store this summer, at the intersection of AI and civil rights

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. @erikbryn on the "great decoupling" - productivity up, median income not growing along with it #AINow

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Trump hopes to close our border based on religion. That's horribly wrong. Failing to say so would make me complicit.

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5/ Thank goodness, there's growing scholarly and policy literature about this today.

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What a mess.

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It can be tempting to pretend that hard moral questions like these have simple technological answers — but they don't. And with that approach, technical experts end up making ethical judgments that really belong to a wider community. Many other voices are locked out.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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Faced with this quandary, Scrib and his colleagues did something rare: They shared their moral burden with the community they served. Rather than believe that their technical expertise gave them special moral standing, they chose to be morally modest, and to widen the circle.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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Bottom line, for anyone tuned in to the struggle to build technology in a democratic and accountable way, this story is well worth a look. I can’t wait to find out what others make of it. Get your copy here:

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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I just published “‘Predictive policing’ is happening now — and police could learn a lesson from Minority Report.”

“Predictive policing” is happening now — and police could learn a lesson from Minority Report.

In the movie Minority Report, mutants in a vat look into the future, and tell Tom Cruise who is about to commit a crime, so he can arrest…

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Last week at @StanfordHAI , I gave a talk about what we can learn from kidney allocation, and apply to other high stakes algorithms. It's now online:

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Governing an Algorithm in the Wild: Seminar with David Robinson

On December 4, 2014, the algorithm that allocates kidneys for transplant in the United States was replaced, following more than a decade of debate and planni...

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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To clarify: On its own terms, this important new paper does *not* show that simplification is always harmful to equity.

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𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧

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We want algorithms that are simple and interpretable. We want algorithms that are fair A paper with Jon Kleinberg that shows why you probably can't have both

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More people know they can move it around and think, “yes, I'll do a large format painting,” or “yes, a I'll take up the bass” or whatever, and we all get more paintings and concerts and calmer, happier, more self-sufficient and dignified neighbors and friends.

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My book Voices in the Code is out today! And thanks to @Marketplace , there's now a great ten-minute podcast to introduce the story:

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Inside the algorithm that decides who gets a donor kidney - Marketplace

David G. Robinson, author of the new book “Voices in the Code,” says input from nonexperts can help create more ethical algorithms

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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At first, I looked at them and thought, gosh, that’s not very nice looking. Because, I associated them subconsciously with hospitals and nursing homes, where they’ve long been common. Now, they just look like door handles.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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DC folks: See me and @mathbabedotorg in conversation at @NewAmerica on "Weapons of Math Destruction," Mon 10/17

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Weapons of Math Destruction

From criminal justice to consumer credit to the job market and beyond, opaque computer systems make life altering decisions every day.

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I'm away from Twitter, and have put my password in escrow. I'm glad to connect through other channels. May we all find the wisdom and courage to work toward a better world — and equally to recognize the contradictions and complexities that live inside each of one of us.

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Some problems that went ignored for decades are only now being addressed. Earlier this summer, for instance, the system finally removed an explicit race factor that had long made it harder for Black patients to get kidneys:

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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When AI gets involved in big decisions, it has to navigate moral questions: ➡️Which traits are fair to consider in a job application? ➡️Who deserves priority in accessing public resources? ➡️How should a defendant's freedom be weighed against the risks they pose to others?

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Fellow #RebLaw2016 attendees: Check out the upcoming #ColorOfSurveillance conference at @GeorgetownCPT

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A short reflection from my wife @yanagent1 , who was born in Kyiv:

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The original design, unveiled in that Dallas meeting back in 2007? It was scrapped after Clive and other patients objected. That plan had tried to maximize the total amount of life-years saved, a popular approach among surgeons and other clinicians.

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@easears I've been moving some 1-on-1's from video to voice-only. With headset. While cleaning or folding laundry or going for a walk.

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💯 There are powerful benefits, as well as powerful risks. And the conversations we're all headed into will need to grapple with all of that.

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Kristian Lum

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There’s one existential risk I’m certain LLMs pose and that’s to the credibility of the field of FAccT / Ethical AI if we keep pushing the snake oil narrative about them.

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In the end, the process found ways to increase the years of life saved while still attending to fairness. Racial equities improved, older patients still had a reasonable chance at organs, and total benefit went up. How’d it happen? Well... I don’t want to spoil it for you.

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Join our team!

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Upturn

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We're hiring a new policy analyst! Do you care about technology, policy, and social justice? Come work with us:

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You can be encumbered by a sports injury, or by arthritis, or because you’re carrying the large format canvass you just painted to an art show, or a string bass to a concert, or a tiny proto-human inside your body.

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But it would likely have meant more organs for younger, wealthier and whiter patients — worsening race equity, and hurting patients who'd waited the longest.

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7/ The main argument that justice system vendors make in favor of trade secrecy mirrors the interests of trade secret holders in general: It's what allows them to invest in innovation.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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PS: That last screen shot was from Accountable Algorithms. Twitter has no edit button! Natalie's paper, again, is here.

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Thrilled to share this.... A major landmark in #aiethics for #policing

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Harlan Yu

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1/ Today, a broad coalition of 42 leading civil rights, racial justice, and community groups are urging @Axon_US 's new "AI ethics board" to reject the development and use of harmful police technologies. Here's our public letter to the board:

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#FAT2018 friends -- Equal Future is @TeamUpturn 's weekly update on tech and social justice. We keep it snappy. (See attached for a few of this week's items.) Interested? Sign up at

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Yes. Yes, we are. @PopTechWorks on "empathy overrides." I'll have more to say in an upcoming paper about quantification as a moral anesthetic.

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16/ (For clarity: my #AccountableAlgorithms coauthors & I have highlighted some limits to the value of source code disclosure, but we agree that code disclosure can be vital, including in courtroom settings where coding errors have constitutional stakes. )

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Come for the searing human stories. Stay for the transparent, structured, reusable data. @themarkup 's commitment to a larger ecosystem of public understanding and public debate is outstanding. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Lauren Kirchner

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For this story, we reviewed hundreds of federal lawsuits on PACER to learn about people losing out on housing because of mistakes in their reports - those are on GitHub here 4/

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Today, I joined 50+ technical experts to call on DHS to drop its “Extreme Vetting Initiative” - a plan to automatically flag people for deportation and visa denial based on broad, undefined criteria.

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@danielschuman @JohnWonderlich @oso @JoshuaCPowell @martintisne @rufuspollock What I hear in @oso 's lament, and agree with, is that there is much to be gained by a central focus on people and their needs, rather than on data as such, in conversations on improving public services and public life - a subtle difference in where and how to start.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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Looking forward to serving as session chair for this vital conversation at #FAT2018

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Kristian Lum

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Folks who develop "fair" risk assessment algs (ie work with COMPAS data) & want to learn more about the legal process and the human impact of recommending pre-trial detention, pls come to my tutorial with @badnewsbendzo and Terrence Wilkerson at #FAT2018 .

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It was messy and slow. There’s no one satisfying way to divvy up life-saving organs. But through public debate, informed by an infrastructure of shared understanding, participants gradually built a shared sense both of what was possible, and of what would be better than before.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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Students: Work with @TeamUpturn this summer! Details here:

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. @TeamUpturn is recruiting a Summer Fellow! We've got some fascinating assignments in store this summer, at the intersection of AI and civil rights

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Cybersecurity firm @ZeroFOX found @deray a "threat actor." #BlackLivesMatter could be a "cyber" threat! #cisa

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ZeroFOX under fire for social media ‘Threat Actors’ report during Baltimore riots

We speak with the founders of the cybersecurity company about why they sent the controversial report. Here's a glimpse, from city officials and others, about its impact.

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Between 2004 and 2014, a diverse group of patients, surgeons, clinicians, data scientists, public officials and advocates collaborated and compromised to build a new transplant matching algorithm to offer donated kidneys to particular patients from the U.S. national waiting list.

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#FAccT23 is coming -- will be there in person and look forward to sharing this CRAFT session. See you in Chicago!

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Bringing People In to High-Stakes System Design: Concrete Challenges and Emerging Lessons @dgrobinson @cndp_us @kylebozentko @kkmays Sarah Atwood On the "participatory turn" in AI and what's needed to make participation matter. What tradeoffs? What are the costs, and to whom?

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@timhwang When my Dad said, "most people, most of the time, are doing the best they can under the circumstances."

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(Here you might be wondering, wait, what might it be like to feel differently about hospitals and nursing homes, the sickness and loss and also the caring and healing -- to open to all of that with tenderness rather than aversion? Good question. I'm wondering the same thing.)

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Great presentation from @rachelkuo on the need for ethics codes to understand the specific vulnerabilities faced by people at the margins #FAT2020

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Lastly — all online! — an @AdaLovelaceInst discussion with @ShannonVallor , where Shannon's vital work on "moral deskilling" and upskilling will give us a frame to think about the human capacities that debates over AI can build.

@AdaLovelaceInst

Ada Lovelace Institute

@AdaLovelaceInst

2 years

🗓️Join us on Wednesday 16 November for our virtual event with @dgrobinson , who will discuss his new book - Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made - in conversation with Professor @ShannonVallor . Register now!

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Achievement unlocked: Have realized that, with final edits on the book due in mid-Jan, it's time to put the Twitter password back into escrow. Happy holidays, everyone. See you on the other side.

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David Robinson @[email protected]

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👋🏼 I'm on a twitter hiatus of indeterminate length. Looking forward to connecting with you offline, or through other channels!

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3 years

2) A book on how algorithms change the stories we tell about who people are. An early look is here:

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@mer__edith @AmooreLouise Seconded!

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Massive thanks to @Leparisdechine and @dlicornelltech for this beautiful and clear distillation of my work

@goodcodepodcast

Good Code Podcast

@goodcodepodcast

5 years

Episode alert!! This week, we talk about algorithms in the #courtroom : tools used by judges to predict the risk of letting someone out versus sending him or her to #jail . Our guest is @dgrobinson ( @TeamUpturn |currently @CornellCIS ). Listen now! 👉

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@wsisaac @jackclarkSF @random_walker Because consistently deploying an established method is not what the research community is there for. Research seeks novelty. Also, the practical challenges of scaling something from a proof of concept to a reliable production item just aren't, in themselves, prized as topics.

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