Rest of World
How AI Reinforces Racism in Brazil – In his book, Silva defines algorithmic racism as when digital platforms, social media, mobile applications, and AI reproduce (and intensify) racism in society: think chatbots, trained from datasets that use racial slurs, or lower Airbnb rates for properties in predominantly Black neighborhoods. In Brazil, a majority Afro-descendant country…
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
How Public Interest Technologists Power Human Rights in the Global South – In an increasingly connected world, human rights are inseparably intertwined with technology. Individuals and organizations working for social justice must mitigate technology’s grave harms, but also harness technology to strengthen their work. It’s a thorny paradox. For example, human rights workers face surveillance, harassment, censorship, and disinformation that undermines their work and threatens their lives. Governments and…
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Context News
Collective power and better auditing can help fix biased AI – Every day, artificial intelligence (AI) systems — from generative AI to algorithms in our governments — grow by leaps and bounds. Tech companies and consulting firms are constantly researching new capabilities, gathering larger training datasets, and proposing novel applications…
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Mozilla Foundation
Breaking Bias: How Algorithmic Racism Goes Unaddressed – It’s hard to conceive how much artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. Voice assistants on our phones, TV show recommendations on our streaming services, and smart devices throughout our homes are just some of the ways AI touches us every day. What we don’t see is the numerous decisions our AI makes, and how developers inform how those decisions are made, and sometimes bake harmful biases into them. How do we surface this and…
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The Brazilian Report
Explaining Brazil #277: How algorithms can be racist – AI image generators have, to some extent, taken over social media. We’ve all seen them, the AI images of how people would look 30 years older, or younger, or what their kids would allegedly look like… And what about that crazy couple of weeks where everyone posted AI-generated posters of themselves in Pixar movies? Well, in Brazil, that trend took a controversial turn…
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Check the full list of media and press participations in Brazil and abroad, including Folha de S. Paulo, Alma Preta, Intercept Brasil, Estadão, Jornal do Commercio, Nexo and more here
Tarcizio Silva | Tech Policy Researcher 