Gods and Robots In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See... See More Episodes arXiv Whitepapers Situating Data Sets: Making Public Data Actionable for Housing Justice Activists, governmentsm and academics regularly advocate for more open data. But how is data made open, and for whom is it made useful and usable? In this paper, we investigate and describe the work of making eviction data open to tenant organizers. We do this through an ethnographic description of... Beyond Voice Assistants: Exploring Advantages and Risks of an In-Car Social Robot in Real Driving Scenarios In-car Voice Assistants (VAs) play an increasingly critical role in automotive user interface design. However, existing VAs primarily perform simple 'query-answer' tasks, limiting their ability to sustain drivers' long-term attention. In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of an in-car... Auditing Work: Exploring the New York City algorithmic bias audit regime In July 2023, New York City (NYC) initiated the first algorithm auditing system for commercial machine-learning systems. Local Law 144 (LL 144) mandates NYC-based employers using automated employment decision-making tools (AEDTs) in hiring to undergo annual bias audits conducted by an independent... More featured content News Articles Virtual influencers: meet the AI-generated figures posing as your new online friends – as they try to sell you stuff How an archeological approach can help leverage biased data in AI to improve medicine Stay in the loop. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly update on the latest podcast, news, events, and jobs postings. E-mail Leave this field blank Social media algorithms warp how people learn from each other, research shows Experts alone can’t handle AI – social scientists explain why the public needs a seat at the table AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans How machine learning models can amplify inequities in medical diagnosis and treatment Mobile robots get a leg up from a more-is-better communications principle AI model can help determine where a patient’s cancer arose More news