Editing LFI Course Materials 4/Week eight

=== Week 11: AI and algorithms and privacy ===
* Real time lecture: September 24th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892

==== Overview ====

==== Readings ====
Anatomy of an AI report and visualization of the data, labor, and ecological impacts of one Amazon Echo device from AI Now Institute: https://anatomyof.ai/
The far-right helped create the world's most powerful facial recognition technology: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
Palantir provides Covid-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/palantir-coronavirus-cdc-nhs-gotham-foundry/


==== Guest lecturer ====
Varoon Mathur, fellow at AI Now Institute 

==== Discussion ====

==== Tasks ====
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-=== Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies ===
+=== Week 11: AI and algorithms and privacy ===
-* September 10th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
+* Real time lecture: September 24th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
 ==== Overview ====
-Big Tech rules our lives, and surveillance is part of their business model. These companies know about us, but what do we know about them? What are their beliefs? How do they influence global politics? What relationships do they have with law enforcement and intelligence agencies? Knowing Big Tech is the first step to taking our power back from them. This week, we'll hear from Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and we'll talk about the big business of big data.
 ==== Readings ====
-* Excerpt from Surveillance Valley: https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine
+Anatomy of an AI report and visualization of the data, labor, and ecological impacts of one Amazon Echo device from AI Now Institute: https://anatomyof.ai/
-* YouTube, the Great Radicalizer: (unpaywalled copy) https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/week-8-nyt-article-un-pay-walled-youtube-the-great-radicalizer/731
+The far-right helped create the world's most powerful facial recognition technology: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
-* Facebook Is Setting Fire to America: https://theweek.com/articles/935148/facebook-setting-fire-america
+Palantir provides Covid-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/palantir-coronavirus-cdc-nhs-gotham-foundry/
-* Tech Workers vs the Pentagon: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
-* Are We Already Living In A Tech Dystopia?: https://gizmodo.com/are-we-already-living-in-a-tech-dystopia-1844824718
-* 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/
 ==== Guest lecturer ====
-Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
+Varoon Mathur, fellow at AI Now Institute
 ==== Discussion ====
-* What is the relationship between privacy and the power of these companies?
-* What interventions are possible to take our power back from Big Tech?
 ==== Tasks ====
-* Lecture, discussion forum, and final project work.