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=== Week 11: AI and algorithms and privacy ===
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=== Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies ===
* Real time lecture: September 24th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
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* September 10th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
  
 
==== Overview ====
 
==== Overview ====
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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 ====
 
==== 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/
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* Excerpt from Surveillance Valley: https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine
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
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* YouTube, the Great Radicalizer: (unpaywalled copy) https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/week-8-nyt-article-un-pay-walled-youtube-the-great-radicalizer/731
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/
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* Facebook Is Setting Fire to America: https://theweek.com/articles/935148/facebook-setting-fire-america
 
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* Tech Workers vs the Pentagon: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
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* Are We Already Living In A Tech Dystopia?: https://gizmodo.com/are-we-already-living-in-a-tech-dystopia-1844824718
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* 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/
  
 
==== Guest lecturer ====
 
==== Guest lecturer ====
Varoon Mathur, fellow at AI Now Institute
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Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
  
 
==== Discussion ====
 
==== Discussion ====
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* What is the relationship between privacy and the power of these companies?
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* What interventions are possible to take our power back from Big Tech?
  
 
==== Tasks ====
 
==== Tasks ====
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* Lecture, discussion forum, and final project work.

Latest revision as of 16:01, 8 September 2020

Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies[edit]

Overview[edit]

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[edit]

Guest lecturer[edit]

Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley

Discussion[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • Lecture, discussion forum, and final project work.