Excited for @katecrawford 's talk "AI Now and the Politics of Classification"
Will try to live tweet, but if I can't keep up, the good news is that @rctatman is sitting right next to me, and I'm sure she'll be on it :)
has been studying social implications of large-scale data, machine learning, and AI and sees us now reaching an inflection point where these technologies are now touching many aspects of our lives: health care, immigration, policing.
: What does AI mean? So much hype, need to define our terms.
Notes major changes in the last 6 years: cheap computing power, changes in algorithms, and vast pipeline of data.