Reflections on terms of service, gender equity, and chatbots — “I agree to the terms of service” is perhaps the most falsely given form of consent. The small print and legalese in these contractual agreements often fails to provide people with meaningful consent and contestability in cases of AI functionality failures or nonconsensual use of content as training data for…

Did you ever share something on social media only to find out that your content was taken down by an automated content moderation system? Or maybe you were concerned that your work was used to train generative AI algorithms without your consent? Did you contest i.e. challenge the outcome of…

Beyond improving the AI systems themselves, we point to the need to think critically about the affordances of the interface through which we interact with them. …

Aloha ʻĀina was the message in activist and educator Dr. Jamaica Osorio’s reflections on what it means to have a sense of place. The dictionary translation from Hawaiian language is “love for the land,” where “Aloha” means the presence of breath and “‘Āina” means that which nourishes you. (Dr. Jamaica…

Before starting my Mozilla Trustworthy AI fellowship, I spent 3 years leading AI impact assessment projects, as a core part of the Responsible AI team at a multinational consulting company. My biggest challenge was to better understand AI systems failure modes from the perspective of their real-world users’ experiences of…

Recently I had an amazing opportunity to contribute to an interdisciplinary workshop together with leading scholars and policymakers, organized by Jacob Metcalf and Ruth Müller at the Technical University of Munich, on the topic of Sociotechnical Approaches to Governing AI. Regulators and AI justice advocates are increasingly turning towards assessments…

Happy World Happiness Day! Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” is the incomprehensible masterpiece that emerged in my mind as I was settling down, rushing to organize the threads in my life that have led me to write these lines. Imagine the sound of Aaron Copland’s fanfares as you’re…

Our interactions with algorithmic systems lead us to develop relationships which extend beyond the digital realms. Inevitably, they have first and second order implications on our innate sense of agency, autonomy, and identity. Disentangling these implications leads us to question the existing legal and other frameworks that operate on the…

This summary introduces the results from preliminary analysis of the CORD-19 research dataset and aims to investigate the ethical and social science considerations regarding pandemic outbreak response efforts. In particular, we identify the research articles in the dataset which discuss the potential barriers and enablers for the uptake of public…