The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...

Scholarship on documentation of datasets is increasingly concerned with capturing the context, socio-technical processes, and decisions shaping data. “Datasheets for datasets” is a recent approach de....

This webinar provides examples of how to conduct public records requests to gather and analyze information pertaining to an institution's technology contracts, correspondence between institutional adm...

Literacy has always been about more than just the ability to read.

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

Flock is just one piece of the mass surveillance puzzle.

The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

Student Surveillance in the Digital Age

Like it or not, we need to learn the tools and their limitations.

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

Our unprecedented, custom-built AI tool tracks every word spoken in public hearings, every dollar donated to politicians, every bill introduced, every vote cast and more. If there’s something you shou...

ALT: Charlie Chaplin Working in Modern Times

The recent adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) platform services in higher education is notable not just for its speed of implementation but for how it is reshaping academic activities on camp...

“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.

Part of the Data & Society Points series "The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction"

You can see AI everywhere except in the productivity statistics

Note: This session will not be recorded, so be sure to catch it live! Please join us for a special event where METRO Executive Director Nate Hill will provide an overview of the work METRO has done fo...

BY BRITT PARIS As AI companies are flailing, financial forecasters warn of an AI bubble. There is an extensive list of harms AI poses to workers, students, communities, the environment, and the soc…

Leading the Future is spending $125 million to defeat AI safeguards. See which candidates Big Tech is backing — and which are being attacked for supporting AI regulation.

The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.

It's been nearly three years since the San Diego City Council passed the Unsafe Camping Ordinance, which prohibited tent encampments on public property when shelter beds are available.The law…

The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?

On May 1st Canvas announced a security breach, and then yesterday the system was hacked. The login page was replaced by a ransom note: if universities don’t pay up by 12 May, student data wil…