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The core arguments, as far as I can tell, are: >Researchers should listen to, amplify, cite and collaborate with communities that have borne the brunt of surve
by meowface 6y ago
The core arguments, as far as I can tell, are:
>Researchers should listen to, amplify, cite and collaborate with communities that have borne the brunt of surveillance: often women, people who are Black, Indigenous, LGBT+, poor or disabled. Conferences and research institutions should cede prominent time slots, spaces, funding and leadership roles to members of these communities.
And:
>Remarkably little research focuses on serving data subjects. What’s needed are ways for these people to investigate AI, to contest it, to influence it or to even dismantle it. For example, the advocacy group Our Data Bodies is putting forward ways to protect personal data when interacting with US fair-housing and child-protection services.
I'm unable to find any other concrete suggestions or arguments. There are some things like "In addition, discussions of how research shifts power should be required and assessed in grant applications and publications.", but "how research/AI shifts power" seems to be a very fuzzy and ill-defined concept.
People aren't going to agree on what power is and who possesses it and who doesn't and what does or doesn't constitute shifting or non-shifting of power, and to who, and how, and why. Let alone exactly how their research's tiny piece of the puzzle fits into it all.
I think it'd be clearer if this contained specific claims or requested specific legal rights beyond broad terms like "shifting power": like anonymization of data, regulations on how companies and the government can collect and use people's data, how and when law enforcement can use automatic recognition systems, etc. Maybe an auditing organization for companies' and governments' heuristic systems (AI or otherwise), to look for type I errors (YouTube LGBT+ videos as not suitable for minors comes to mind). Maybe some way to determine what technologies could be ripe for abuse.
It's like making your motto "our organization is dedicated to ensuring AI benefits the people, not the elites". Okay... who are the elites, who are the people, how could the elites and people be benefitted or harmed, etc.
- ponker 6y agoLol. “Communities that have borne the brunt of surveillance” and then a list starting with “women.” Men are surveilled at vastly higher rates than women, and a huge majority of police brutality is against men (specifically, poor and black men). Next up is “Indigenous” which is also laughable, as at least in the US the federal government clearly couldn’t give two shits about what is or isn’t happening to Native American people.