"By Ezekiel Dixon-Román and Ramon Amaro"

"Making your News Feed chronological is an enlightening look at what's really happening on the platform."

This is such a good essay "Trust is not just about how reliably an algorithm does its work but what that work is, who that work is for, and what responsibilities come with its development and deployment."

[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/now-that-machines-can-learn-can-they-unlearn/](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/now-that-machines-can-learn-can-they-unlearn/) >"Privacy concerns about AI systems are growing. So researchers are testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining _...Read More_

>"Discrimination in speech-translation software adds to existing digital and physical infrastructures set in place to _...Read More_

>"A debate is raging over the social media giant's role in dividing the country. But it's the US's deeply-rooted inequities that tech should focus on."

>"For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact."

"A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws"

>"As more of our lives are mediated through the internet, private companies cannot be allowed to dictate the terms on which we relate to each other, argue Tim Scriven and Aleks Wansbrough."

>"A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn’t distinguish them from those penned by humans."

Insightful convo with Wendy Hui Kyong and Jorge Cotte May 12, 2020 on network incentives. "What is disturbing about homophily is not only that it has become normalized — we presume it’s the only form of connection, thus erasing _...Read More_