Upcoming Readings

• 10/30/2024
  • Andrew Mallinson - “Queering AI with Andrew Mallinson”
• 11/13/2024
  • Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - “Universities Anxiously Buy into the Hype”
• 11/27/2024
  • Benjamin Shestakofsky - “Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup”

Past Readings

• 10/16/2024
  • Fulgu & Capraro, “Surprising Gender Biases in GPT”
• 10/2/2024
  • Webb, Yawhon, Morgan, & Berry, “Who Owns Black Data? Keynote Address”
• 9/18/2024
  • Noble, “The Power of Algorithms,” in Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism: 1-14.
  • Noble, “Searching for Black Girls,” in Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism: 64-109.
• 8/5/2024
  • Nakamura, “Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture.”
• 7/22/2024
  • Posada, “Why AI Needs Ethics from Below.”
  • Matheus, Tubaro, & Casili, “Microwork in Brazil. Who are the workers behind artificial intelligence?.”
• 7/8/2024
  • Humberstone, “I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!)” (revisting)
  • Baker, “Datasets Have Worldviews.” (revisting)
  • Torres, “The Acronym Behind our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares” (optional)
• 4/1/2024
  • Hofmann, Kalluri, Jurafsky, & King, “Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people’s character, employability, and criminality.”
• 3/11/2024
  • McPherson, “Why are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation”
• 2/26/2024
  • Matthewson, “AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating”
  • D’Agostino, “AI Has a Language Diversity Problem”
• 2/5/2024
  • Akhtar, “Is Pokemon Go Racist? How the App may be redlining communities of color”
  • Colley et al., “The Geography of Pokemon Go: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement”
• 11/20/2023
  • (Optional detailed reading) Gebru, Bender, McMillian-Major, & Schmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?”
  • (Summarizes the above article) Companion, “Computational Language Models Can Further Environmental Degredation and Language Bias”
  • Schwab, “This is Bigger Than just Timnit: How Google Tried to Silence a Critic and Ignited a Movement”
• 11/6/2023
  • Noble, “A Society, Searching,” in Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism: 15-63.
• 10/23/2023
  • Baker, “Datasets Have Worldviews.”
  • Posada, “Why AI Needs Ethics from Below”
  • Humberstone, “I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!)”