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- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
Book Review: Privacy in Context
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg famously said “the age of privacy is over”. (Kirkpatrick, 2010) He’s walked back that statement in the ensuing...
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Requerimiento, viruses, vaccines and revolutions: Fresh takes on surveillance capitalism
I'm re-reading Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - the first book selected by the Women in AI Ethics bookclub for...
- Nov 28, 2020
- 5 min
Book Review: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
How we currently build AI is fundamentally flawed. We need new principles and a new process to build intelligent machines that are able...
- Jan 25, 2020
- 4 min
Your toaster is the weakest link
In a post-Christmas shopping spree, my husband brought home "an amazing deal" - a Ring doorbell bundled with an Amazon Echo. He had no...
- Nov 3, 2019
- 5 min
In too Deep: Are we missing the bigger picture for AI?
If I were writing an equation to summarize the general state of artificial intelligence today it might look like this: AI = ML = DNN...
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
The Orangetheory of Data Religion
I hate working out. But I dutifully drag myself to the gym a couple times a week. Recently, I’ve been going to Orangetheory Fitness. For...
- Oct 9, 2019
- 3 min
When data knows us better than we know ourselves
A few months ago, I was enticed by a special offer from 23andMe. I'd been on the fence about genetic testing for some time. Like the...
