Search Engines, AI & The Politics Of Oppression | Tech Breakdown Episode 6
Internet studies scholar Dr Safiya Noble and journalist Manasa Narayanan consider how technologies like search engines, along with AI-powered facial recognition & large language models further biases and serve as tools of oppression.
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In A Byte: The Big Tech Lobby Watering Down the EU AI Act
Manasa Narayanan and Bram Vranken discuss how Big Tech giants have been engaging in intense lobbying to undermine the EU AI Act and evade AI regulation.
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The People’s AI Summit
The conversation around AI safety is urgently needed, but the UK government’s AI Safety Summit fails to address the most immediate, dangerous risks of AI. So the Citizens is convening ‘The People’s AI Summit’ with civil society, academics, experts and platform accountability advocates.
Marietje Schaake writes about Europe’s landmark legislation to rein in on Big Tech.
A UK-based pornography company, more than a dozen Instagram pages & hate as bait. Manasa Narayanan investigates.
Safety scoring tools in place to supposedly protect children are instead putting them in danger. Caitlin Thompson investigates.
Why has the government refused to investigate Russian interference in our democracy? We plan to tell the story of how the Kremlin infiltrated the British establishment. But we need your help to do it