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”. Required. Presentation by Natalia P. G.

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.” Recommended. Presentation by Cristian P. T.

Cohen, J. E. (2019). Turning privacy inside out. Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 20(1), 1–31. Required. Presentation by Emilio P. P.

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