Atlas of AI
Cryptocurrency mining requires enormous amounts of energy and human ______.
What is labor?
They come together to “support every person’s right and ability to learn from their own data. They're committed to accuracy, independence, inclusiveness, and transparency in all of our work.”
Who are the Quantified Self?
The historical, institutional, social, cultural, people, and material conditions that shape information
What is context?
ImageNet is based off this lexical database
What is WordNet?
What is the difference between Ethics and Justice?
Ethics considers the data implications, the morals, and considers/examines the power dynamics. Justice takes the next step of doing something about it.
Photo _______:
Filename, Camera settings, Geolocation, Date, Time
What is metadata?
Self-tracking takes place in social situations. The numbers of self-tracking may focus on the individual, but they stem from fundamental beliefs about how societies function.
What is Social Self Tracking?
When data teams are primarily composed of people from dominant groups, those perspectives come to exert outsized influence on the decisions being made—to the exclusion of other identities and perspectives. This is not usually intentional; it comes from the ignorance of being on top.
What is privilege hazard?
A predictive algorithm that law enforcement uses to gathers information to predict/identify potential nefarious actors or predict future events and how to address them
What is Clearview AI?
What two concepts (one from Atlas of AI, and one from Data Feminism) discuss the ability to enforce a label on someone?
Think classification labels and gender...
What are Power to Define a Person & Binaries?
The logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. Indicative of Social Media Ad Preferences.
What are Systems of Circular Logic?
Aspects of our lives previously outside of the “medical field” are now considered medical, due to technological advances
What is biomedicalization?
The oxymoron that ignores that information is situated, that data helps create information and that data is situated.
What is raw data?
Organization aims to help businesses reevaluate if, when and how they ask for gender data.
What is Beyond Binary Code?
Not considering the context of data may lead to incorrect assumptions of what one can see in data visualizations. One concept that relates to this from Self-Tracking is...
What is spurious correlation?
"The exercise of power cast by the disembodied gaze of certain surveillance technologies ... that can be employed to do the work of alienating the subject by producing a truth about the racial body and one's identity (or identities) despite the subject's claims.
What is digital epidermilization?
Individuals have the ability to restructure power dynamics between pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and healthcare providers ... we call this idea?
What is patient empowerment?
Asking these questions relates to what principle of Data Feminism? {Who does the work (and who is pushed out)? Who benefits (and who is neglected or harmed)? Whose priorities get turned into products (and whose are overlooked)?}
What is "Examine Power"?
A consultancy that helps companies and organizations manage and audit algorithmic risks.
What is ORCAA?
Training data being fed into machine learning without considering the context can lead to what implication?
What is bias?
“AI extracts far more from us and the planet than is widely known”
Many kinds of extraction: depletion of natural resources, exploitation of labor around the world, harvesting data made from our daily activities and expressions
What are the logics of extraction?
Name at least 3 of the 5 motives for self tracking
What are 1) Monitoring and Evaluating, 2) Debugging a Problem, 3) Eliciting a Sensation, 4) Aesthetic Curiosity, and 5) Tracking/Cultivating a Habit?
"If you refuse to register non-binary people like me with birth certificates, and exclude us in everything from creating bank accounts to signing up for mailing lists, you do not have the right to turn around and say that there are not enough of us to warrant change". This quote is relevant to what concept?
What is "what gets counted counts"?
________ operations worldwide now use energy at the rate of nearly a hundred and twenty terawatt-hours per year. This is about the annual domestic electricity consumption of the entire nation of Sweden.
What is Bitcoin?
Amazon's "The Rate" was related to what historical context in class? What kind of exploitation is this, and what kind of justice focuses on fixing these kinds of issues?
What is Ford Supply Chains, Labor Exploitation and Design Justice?
(DJ uses design to sustain, heal, and empower communities, as well as to seek liberation from exploitative and oppressive systems)