The rapid, precipitous decline of every digital service we depend on isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of specific known, policy choices made by specific, named individuals. We can reverse those decisions (and we can determine what sized pitchfork those individuals wear). Enshittification wasn’t inevitable: it was the foreseeable outcome of a plan to encourage […]
Can law and policy be used to help design responsible AI-powered technologies for building a healthier information environment? Join UW School of Law professor and Tech Policy Lab co-founder Ryan Calo online for a deep dive into the latest developments in the fight against online misinformation. Hear about the ways AI threatens to exacerbate the […]
Kashmir Hill has been working on a book about facial recognition technology for the last three years. In doing so, she tracked down the early pioneers, found the people fighting against the worst impulses for the technology, and dove into the history of Clearview AI, the ground-breaking startup that first drew her into the topic […]
As consumer credit has become increasingly central to the economy, levels of poverty and inequality have also risen. These trends are not unrelated but partly causal of each other: poverty and inequality begot credit, and credit begot inequality and poverty. This talk will explore the less-theorized role of advances in information technology and resulting changes […]
Barry Friedman serves as the Faculty Director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law, where he is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Politics. The Policing Project is dedicated to strengthening policing through ordinary democratic processes; it drafts best practices and policies for policing agencies, including […]
