All Blog Posts
These blog posts are written by TAP academics, TAP staff members, and on occasion by guest bloggers. TAP’s purpose for this section of the site is to present information, points of view, research, and debates directly from the academics and guest experts.
Blog Results: 8
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Margot Kaminski Delves into the Current State of the Law of AI Ethics
Publication Date: July 28, 2023
Colorado law Professor Margot Kaminski discusses the issues surrounding how to regulate and build ethical AI systems. Additionally, she explains some of the risks of regulating AI, and the importance of an individual right to contest AI decisions.
Featuring
Margot KaminskiTAP Scholar
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The Quantified Worker: Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa’s Research on Workplace Surveillance and Automated Hiring Systems
Publication Date: June 29, 2023
Emory Law Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa discusses her new book, The Quantified Worker, Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace. She explains how the workforce science of today goes far beyond increasing efficiency and threatens to erase individual personhood.
Featuring
Ifeoma AjunwaTAP Scholar
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Future of Privacy Forum’s 13th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Recognizes TAP Scholars
Publication Date: March 10, 2023
Articles by Professor Anita Allen of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Professor Paul Schwartz of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law have been honored with the FPF’s Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.
Featuring
Anita AllenTAP Scholar
Paul M. SchwartzTAP Scholar
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AI’s Prediction Power and the Anti-Discrimination Opportunity
Publication Date: October 15, 2022
Rotman School of Management economic scholars Joshua Gans, Ajay Agrawal, and Avi Goldfarb explain why "AI systems solutions have the potential to reduce discrimination across domains, from education to healthcare and banking."
Featuring
Joshua GansTAP Scholar
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Privacy Experts Anita Allen and Danielle Citron Discuss Fighting Racial Discrimination in Our Digital Lives
Publication Date: October 7, 2022
In a UVA Common Law podcast, University of Pennsylvania law professor Anita Allen joins University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron and UVA Law’s Dean Risa Goluboff to discuss privacy law as it specifically impacts people of color.
Featuring
Anita AllenTAP Scholar
Danielle CitronTAP Scholar
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Kate Crawford Discusses Discrimination Concerns with Developing AI Language Model Systems
Publication Date: August 29, 2022
Dr. Kate Crawford, Research Professor at USC Annenberg, weighs in on the debate about the possibility of AI systems becoming sentient in the near future. She emphasizes that of more concern are “the types of biases or stereotypes that are very commonly built into these models.”
Featuring
Kate CrawfordTAP Scholar
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Ifeoma Ajunwa Proposes A Veil of Ignorance for Automated Decision-Making
Publication Date: June 28, 2021
University of North Carolina School of Law professor Ifeoma Ajunwa addresses unintended bias in automated decision-making.
Featuring
Ifeoma AjunwaTAP Scholar
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Joseph Turow Warns of Discrimination and Privacy Issues When Retail Stores Track Customers
Publication Date: March 2, 2017
In this article written for The Atlantic, Annenberg School for Communications professor Joseph Turow explains that the data mining and in-store tracking practices used by retail stores to offer special deals for individual customers raises issues of discrimination and privacy.
Featuring
Joseph TurowTAP Scholar