What do we do?
Everyone
- Cath, Corinne, and Os Keyes. “Your Thoughts for a Penny? Capital, Complicity, and AI Ethics.” In Economies of Virtue — The Circulation of “Ethics” in AI, edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldfein, Declan Kuch, and Monique Mann, 24–39. INC Theory on Demand 46. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2022. https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EconomiesofVirtueINC2022TOD46-2.pdf (book chapter, 28 mins.; remember, you only need to read the first chapter in Section I!)
- Collective Action in Tech (database, skim)
In groups
Check your email for a signup sheet that you can use to select one of the readings below. In class, I’ll ask you to work with your group to summarize the article’s recommendations and then argue for the idea’s effectiveness.
Group 1: Reclaim our data
- Ben Tarnoff, Logic Magazine. “The Data Is Ours!” https://logicmag.io/scale/the-data-is-ours/ (article, 27 mins.)
Group 2: Build community solidarity
- Irani, Lily, and Khalid Alexander. “The Oversight Bloc.” Logic(s) Magazine, n.d. https://logicmag.io/beacons/the-oversight-bloc/ (article, 21 mins.)
Group 3: Build better ML systems
- Klumbytė, Goda, Claude Draude, and Alex S. Taylor. “Critical Tools for Machine Learning: Working with Intersectional Critical Concepts in Machine Learning Systems Design.” In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 1528–41. FAccT ’22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3531146.3533207 (article, 35 mins.)
Group 4: Rewrite labor law
- Block, Sharon, and Benjamin Sachs. Executive Summary, “The Clean Slate Agenda.” Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University. Accessed March 29, 2023 (report summary, 12 mins.; see also the report itself)
Group 5: Unionize
- Logic Magazine. “Now I Know My ABCs: A Conversation with Two Organizers from the Alphabet Workers Union.” https://logicmag.io/distribution/now-i-know-my-abcs-a-conversation-with-two-organizers-from-the-alphabet/ (article, 26 mins.)