Assignments > Discussion 6

Due on Thu, 02/18 @ 11:59PM.

Surveillance and/or AI

Please respond to any of the ideas examined in any of this week’s readings / discussions:

Required Readings

• Ahmed, Shazeda (May, 2019). The Messy Truth About Social Credit (China). Logic Magazine.
• Marda, Vidushi & Ahmed, Shazeda (Jan, 2021). Emotional Entanglement: China’s emotion recognition market and its implications for human rights. Article 19.
• Joler, Vladan and Pasquinelli, Matteo (2020). The Nooscope Manifested: AI as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism.
• Interview with Kevin Kelly (Co-founder of Wired Magazine) Through AI, we’re going to invent many new types of thinking. IBM Blog.

Optional Readings

• Galligan, Rosenfeld, Kleinman, & Parthasarathy (2020). Cameras in the Classroom: Facial Recognition Technology in Schools. University of Michigan Technology Assessment Project.
• Katz, Yarden (2017). Manufacturing an Artificial Intelligence Revolution.
• Yee, Stephanie and Chu, Tony A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning, Part 1.

When you’re done, you will respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. Shoot for around 200-400 words in length (give or take).