In December 2020, Google informed Dr. Timnit Gebru that she was terminated from her position as Staff Research Scientist and Co-Lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team. Google then falsely claimed that Dr. Gebru had resigned, citing Dr. Gebru’s pushback against company censorship of her research on the dangers of large-scale AI language models. The… Read More »Tech and Racial Justice Panel + #RecruitMeNot Campaign Launch
What role does the University play in facilitating the establishment of the surveillance state? How does funding from military, defence, and corporate actors shape academic research, as well as legitimise state and business practices? How can technology researchers resist powerful actors co-opting their research for surveillance, expanded policing, and military purposes, and navigate the resulting… Read More »NT4T Panel Discussion ‘The University & the Surveillance State’
Technologies used for border and migration control have become increasingly diffuse, globally, no longer confined to the physical border. In some refugee camps, residents are required to scan their irises or fingerprints to access essential goods and services, including credit, while subjected to a host of experimental humanitarian technologies, which ultimately govern and contain migrant… Read More »Universities Without Borders: Higher Education and the Technologies of Hostile Environments