Frank Pasquale

@FrankPasquale

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms Behind Money & Information Reputation/Search/Finance

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    26 Jun 2018

    1. This thread links to some sources for my talk today at , on “Legal Automation, Rule by Law, and the Rule of Law.”

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    11 hours ago

    Preventing digital feudalism. Innovation does not just have a rate of progression; it also has a direction. The threat posed by AI and other technologies lies in how they are being designed and deployed. Our challenge is to set a new course —

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    Oct 1

    If you work at Facebook and have a conscience, note that when Facebook takes criticism from conservative politicians, Zuckerberg tries to change things up to appease critics whereas when it takes criticism from progressive politicians he vows to “go to the mat” to fight them.

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  4. 21 hours ago

    Bosses can promote "useless or even counterproductive programs of health monitoring & intervention in order to create certain types of subject: submitting, obedient & ever-cognizant of" work. (from: ) But technocrats keep pushing them as good health policy.

    We've got loads of evidence that wellness programs do not work. They don't save money. They don't make people healthier. They're also creepy as all get-out. Yet now the Trump administration is pushing them onto the individual market.
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    23 hours ago

    On AI surveillance technologies in France (from the report; missing the bit about in French schools from above):

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  6. 24 hours ago

    “To compare trading stocks to trading crypto is like comparing the Westminster Dog Show to a back-alley dog fight. Stocks are regulated by laws around market manipulation & insider trading; cryptocurrency regulation is practically non-existent”

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  7. Oct 1

    “They've bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. [We must] make big, structural changes to the tech sector— including breaking up Amazon, Facebook, and Google”

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    Oct 1

    Now that Zuck is directly opposing a candidate, maybe it's also time to revisit this and worry?

    The strongest case for breaking up the tech giants stems from their immense power to shape public discourse--and, by shaping public discourse, to influence elections and distort democracy. Zuckerberg makes the case for antitrust.
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    Oct 1

    If it’s really the same as financial directors then this means most likely absolutely nothing will happen ...

    Social media executives face being held legally responsible for harmful content in the same way as financial directors in order to “concentrate their minds,” says Nicky Morgan, the Culture Secretary.
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    Oct 1

    The first meeting of my AI Governance & Human Rights study group is about to begin. Can human rights serve as a North Star to guide AI development, deployment, and integration?

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    Oct 1

    The court upheld the 2017 FCC decision to undo net neutrality rules, meaning it remains legal for internet providers to block and throttle access to websites as they choose. But the court also reaffirmed the ability for states to pass their own net neutrality rules. Story coming

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    Oct 1

    I am not going to lie, this makes me a little nervous about Facebook's trustworthiness going into this election.

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    Oct 1

    A ringing endorsement.

    Whoa, 's Mark Zuckerberg calls an "existential" threat to his business interests, says he'll "go to the mat" and "fight" her
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    Oct 1

    As the 'break up big tech' conversation mounts, read this excellent piece from about a range of ways to consider regulating tech companies. I share it all the time, it's *so* helpful to have this Jeffersonian vs Hamiltonian lens to consider:

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    Oct 1

    "A YouTube spokesperson denied that there is a list of LGBTQ words that trigger demonetization." Well yes, because that's not how machine learning works. What there is is a bot that YouTube has taught to seek out and punish queerness.

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    Sep 30

    A paper by Beijing researchers presents a new machine learning technique whose main uses seem to be trolling and disinformation. It's been accepted for publication at EMLNP, one of the top 3 venues for Natural Language Processing research. Cool Cool Cool

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  17. Oct 1

    Ruthless: “Instagram also blocks users from adding links to Snapchat profiles in the bio. I got a notification stating ‘Links asking someone to add you on another service aren’t supported on Instagram’”

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  18. Oct 1

    “‘Ask the people at Snapchat about the Kumbaya stuff at Facebook,’ said , referring to the relentless cloning of a competitor’s features to the point where it is now financially struggling. ‘When they want to kill somebody, they kill them.’”

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  19. Oct 1

    “The educational landscape is now littered with virtual schools because ed-tech companies promised that they would reach the hard-to-educate [&] create efficiencies in low-funded districts. Instead, many of the startups have been hit by scandal”

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  20. Oct 1

    WeChat is exactly what Zuckerberg wants: one app including all functions of “Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Uber, Expedia, Venmo, Paypal, short-form podcasts, and food delivery. And whatever WeChat can’t natively do, it” gets 3rd party apps to.

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    Sep 30

    WeWork and Juul show that startup 'valuations' can be totally meaningless ( - )

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