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Mozilla Highlights AI Bias and 'Addiction by Design' Tech in Internet Health Report

Thursday April 25, 2019. 12:05 AM , from Slashdot
Mozilla this week released the 2019 Internet Health Report, an analysis that brings together insights from 200 experts to examine issues central to the future of the internet. From a report: This year's report chose to focus primarily on injustice perpetuated by artificial intelligence; what NYU's Natasha Dow Schull calls 'addiction by design' tech, like social media apps and smartphones; and the power of city governments and civil society 'to make the internet healthier worldwide.' The Internet Health Report is not designed to issue the web a bill of health, rather it is intended as a call to action that urges people to 'embrace the notion that we as humans can change how we make money, govern societies, and interact with one another online.'

The modern AI agenda, the report's authors assert, is shaped in part by large tech companies and China and the United States. The report calls particular attention to Microsoft and Amazon's sale of facial recognition software to immigration and law enforcement agencies. The authors point to the work of Joy Buolamwini, whom Fortune recently named 'the conscience of the AI revolution.' Through audits published by Buolamwini and others in the past year, facial recognition software technology from Microsoft, Amazon's AWS, and other tech companies was found to be less capable of recognizing people with dark skin, particularly women of color.

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