Cathy O'Neil
Mathematician and writer
Weapons of Math Destruction is still the plainest account of scoring systems that punish the people least able to contest them.
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How data is gathered, whose lives it represents, and whether it can be trusted.Whether models do what they claim, how they fail, and how we know.Attacks on and through AI systems: injection, jailbreaks, cyber offense.Whether people can see, contest, and hold to account what a system does.When software acts across time and tools, faster than people can intervene.The physical and operational stack models run on — clouds, chips, outages.Energy, water, minerals, and the living world that compute depends on.
Abeba Birhane
Cognitive scientist · Trinity College Dublin · Mozilla
Writes about relational ethics and the colonial patterns that hide in datasets. A voice for culture, identity, and who is made into data.
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor · Cornell Tech
Contextual integrity: privacy is not secrecy, it is appropriate flow. The idea that lets a mixed group talk about data without collapsing into 'share nothing.'