13 AI, State Control, Privacy, and Human Rights

Lecture

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Reading

Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press. Read Ch. 1: “Nature and Space” and Ch. 3: “Authoritarian High Modernism”. Presentation by Santiago S. M.

Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. A. (2012). Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty. Crown Business. Read Ch. 12: “The Vicious Circle” and Ch. 13: “Why Nations Fail Today.” Presentation by Ranferi T.

Cohen, J. E. (2019). Turning privacy inside out. Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 20(1), 1–31. Presentation by Ignacio V. R.

Buolamwini, J., & Gebru, T. (2018). Gender shades: Intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 81, 77–91. Presentation by Alejandro Z. R.