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Sometimes I just watch
They think, ‘If I put all these cameras up, I’ll be safe.’ Safe from what? … It’s only making them more afraid."
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The job-interview AI
“It’s pseudoscience. It’s a license to discriminate. And the people whose lives and opportunities are literally being shaped by these systems don’t have any chance to weigh in.”
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Face scan summer camp
"This idea where you have to be happy all the time: That’s not real, and yet that’s what we’re chasing and what we’re looking for when we want all these pictures all the time.”
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The human worker machines
"The last thing you want it to do is talk. Because if you talk, people think they can talk back."
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Unraveling a viral fraud
“We don’t have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true."
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Menstrual surveillance
“I want them to have a healthy baby because it’s great for our business experience. Rather than having a baby who’s in the neonatal ICU, where she’s not able to focus much on work."
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Deepfake misogyny
"The Internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself."
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The perfect babysitter
“Social media shows a person’s character. So why did she come in at a 2 and not a 1?”
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Inventing a conspiracy
We tracked how bigots and trolls raced to spread the "crisis actor" lie after the Parkland school shooting.