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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Recent Papers from TAP Scholars Delve into AI’s Impact on Tech-policy Issues
Publication Date: January 20, 2023
Introduction to several recent articles by TAP scholars that explore the impact of artificial intelligence technologies on gender equity, algorithmic decision-making, cost and rating collusion, free speech, and trade secrecy.
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Recent Papers from TAP Scholars Examine AI’s Impact on the Future of Work and Privacy
Publication Date: September 13, 2021
Introduction to several recent articles by TAP scholars that explore the impact of artificial intelligence technologies on the future of work, racial and gender equity, privacy, and administrative accountability.
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Fordham Law’s Bennett Capers Discusses Issues of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Publication Date: March 2, 2021
Professor Bennett Capers discusses his article, “Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044,” and shares how his interests in literature, experience as a prosecutor, and his personal identity influence his scholarship.
Featuring
Bennett CapersTAP Scholar
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Geek Tragedy: Why Do IT Firms Lack Diversity?
Publication Date: February 14, 2018
MIT economist Glenn Ellison discusses the technology sector’s increasingly conspicuous lack of ethnic, gender, and social diversity.
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Diversity in the IT Workforce: Precursors in Education and Challenges
Publication Date: June 8, 2017
MIT economics professor Glenn Ellison shares findings from his research into the longstanding issue of underrepresentation of women and minorities in the information technology workforce.