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Mar 7, 20215 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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...