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… is that it’s not long before it’s no longer fiction!
My 2019 story The Auditor and the Exorcist included an IoT coffeemaker that was hijacked by a malicious hacker. It’s 2020, and here’s the hacked IoT coffeemaker: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a-hacker-turned-a-250-coffee-maker-into-ransom-machine/
Continue reading “The problem with near-future SF…”Machine-learning facial recognition is biased, say researchers. OK, let’s arrest a guy based on it, say Detroit police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recognition-arrest.html
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Terrific collection of articles on algorithmic bias in AI on getpocket’s blog: https://blog.getpocket.com/2020/06/the-bias-embedded-in-algorithms/ – curated by Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
This is my second post on the emerging tech of emotion-recognition AI. In my last post, I considered some of the consequences of algorithmic blind spots on likely applications of emotion-recognition tech. In this post, I’ll get into algorithmic bias.
Continue reading “Emotion-monitoring AI, part II”Back in 2019, when in-person conventions were still a thing, I participated in a Can-Con panel about the future of emotion-monitoring technology and AI. The panel was terrific, with able moderation by Kim-Mei Kirtland and fascinating contributions from my fellow panelists. I’ve written up some of my thoughts from that panel to share here.
Because of my tech background, I always find it interesting to think about the potential effects of bugs in fictional and emerging technology.
This is is the first of a series of posts the emerging tech of emotion-recognition AI, focusing on the strange and dark places that bugs in this tech could take us.
Continue reading “Emergent tech: emotion-monitoring AI”