Press for my research
- Mar 10, 2019: Bay Area police try out controversial AI software that tells them where to patrol(Ethan Baron, The Mercury News)
- Feb 14, 2019: "Runaway Feedback Loops in Predictive Policing" was covered by Caroline Haskins (Motherboard): Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm is Fundamentally Flawed.
- Feb 6, 2019. Why the criminal justice system should abandon algorithms (Tristan Greene, The Next Web)
- Feb 4, 2019. This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix (Karen Hao, Technology Review)
- Apr 12, 2018. Discriminating algorithms: 5 times AI showed prejudice. (Daniel Cossins, new Scientist)
- Oct 4, 2017. Biased policing is made worse by errors in pre-crime algorithms (Matt Reynolds, New Scientist)
- Aug 31, 2017. When Machines Decide Your Fate (Talk at SLC Public Library)
- Sep 27, 2016: To Make AI Less Biased, Give It a Worldview (Jordan Pearson, Motherboard)
- Sep 19, 2016: The Digital Show (Business Radio @ Wharton)
- Aug 3, 2016: Is an algorithm any less racist than a human? (Leigh Alexander, the Guardian)
- Mar 20, 2016:When Computers Stand in the Schoolhouse Door (Communications of the ACM)
- Sep 24, 2015: Interview with KPCW's Cool Science Radio
- Sep 7, 2015: Computer algorithms can be biased, but U. team says it can fix problem (Deseret News)
- Aug 21, 2015:Computer scientists find bias in algorithms (IEEE Spectrum)
- Aug 17, 2015: It's not just humans, COMPUTERS can be prejudiced too: Software may accidentally sort job applications based on race or gender
- Aug 16, 2015: Computer programs can be as biased as humans (Gizmod0)
- Aug 16, 2015: Computer programs can be as biased as humans (NBC News)
Articles/shows that I (or my colleagues) have been interviewed for:
- Jul 10, 2019: I was interviewed about the problems with ICE using DMV databases and facial recognition to search for suspects (Cat Sandoval, Newsy)
- Jun 25, 2019: I weighed in the new trend of using audio surveillance to monitor children in schools
- Jun 5, 2019: I was on KPCC's AirTalk with Larry Mantle to discuss new problems with YouTube's recommendation algorithm.
- Apr 23, 2019: On Instagram's use of content filters for sexually suggestive content (Medium, by Lux Alptraum)
- Nov 25, 2018: I was interviewed by Ava Hofman for the Intercept: The dangerous junk science of vocal risk assessment.
- Oct 29, 2018: Facing Tomorrow's High-Tech School Surveillance (Motherboard, by Rose Eveleth).
- Oct 26, 2018: BuzzFeed's analysis of Amazon's face recognition system as deployed by Orlando Police (by Davey Alba).
- Sep 14, 2018: I was interviewed on Science Friday regarding algorithms and bias.
- Jul 27, 2018: CNN article on the ACLU experiment with Amazon's Rekognition system.
- June 29, 2018: BBC World Service segment on facial recognition.
- June 20, 2018: Bias detectives: the researchers striving to make algorithms fair(Nature News, by Rachel Courtland)
- May 16, 2018: How We Made AI As Racist and Sexist As Humans(The Walrus, by Danielle Groen).
- May 9, 2018: Facial recognition tech is creepy when it works—and creepier when it doesn’t(Wired, by Lily Newman).
- Mar 10, 2018: Computersystemen bepalen steeds vaker wat we zien, maar hoe leer je een computer wat ethiek is?(Trouw, by Kiki Kolman and Fadi Nadrous).
- Feb 9, 2018: Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions(WIRED, by Issie Lapowsky).
- Feb 9, 2018: Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy (NYT, by Steve Lohr).
- Feb 8, 2018: Is your software racist? (Politico, by Li Zhou).
- Oct 26, 2017: How AI could stop the spread of STIs (Citylab, by Amita Kalaichandran)
- Sep 19, 2017: To Fix Its Toxic Ad Problem, Facebook Must Break Itself (Wired, by Issie Lapowsky)
- Sep 5 2017: Künstliche Intelligenz voller Vorurteile (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, by Eva Wolfangel)
- Aug 29, 2017: When algorithms decide your fate (RadioActive, on KRCL Radio)
- Jul 20, 2017: Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It? (FiveThirtyEight, by Laura Hudson)
- Jun 23, 2017: 15 years after 'Minority Report': A cautionary film, ignored. (CNN, by Matt McFarland)
- Apr 30, 2017: Algorithmic accountability: Algorithms are designed to make our lives easier. The problem is, they're designed by us. (TechCrunch, by Megan Rose Dickey)
- Apr 14, 2017: Artificial intelligence: How to avoid racist algorithms. (BBC News, by Zoe Kleinman)
- Apr 13, 2017: Bad News: Artificial Intelligence Is Racist, Too (Live Science by Stephanie Pappas)
- Apr 13, 2017: Scientists Taught A Robot Language. It Immediately Turned Racist. (BuzzFeed News by Nidhi Subbaraman)
- Apr 13, 2017: AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language (IEEE Spectrum by Jeremy Hsu)
- Mar 10, 2017: Algorithms Learn From Us, And We’ve Been Bad Parents (NBC News (Mach), by Bahar Gholipour)
- Sept 8, 2016: A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin (The Guardian, by Sam Levin)
- July 28, 2016: Pokemon Go shows how technology reflects real-world biases, says prof (CBC Radio's The Current)
- July 18, 2016: Does Crime-Predicting Software Bias Judges? Unfortunately, There’s No Data. (Motherboard, by Rose Eveleth)
- July 1, 2016: Not All Swastika Tattoos Are the Same (Yael Grauer, Slate)
- Apr 21, 2016: Amazon Doesn’t Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It? (Bloomberg, by David Ingold and Spencer Soper)
- Apr 14, 2016: Investigating the algorithms that govern our lives (CJR, by Chava Gourarie)
- Mar 21, 2016: Design Bias: The Inherent Bias of Facial Recognition (Motherboard, by Rose Eveleth)
- Mar 15, 2016: Can Computer Programs Be Racist And Sexist? (NPR's All Tech Considered)
- Mar 08, 2016: The quantified life (podcast by Rose Eveleth)
- Dec 20, 2015: Even an algorithm can be unfair (CBC Radio's The Spark, with Nora Young)
- Nov 20, 2015: Why Machines Discriminate and How to Fix Them (Science Friday)
- Aug 19, 2015: Top of the Mind with Julie Rose (BYU Radio)
- Jul 20, 2015: Racism/sexism in tech (Al Jazeera America)