Virginia Eubanks
Writer and teacher
Automating Inequality follows ranking systems in welfare, homelessness, and child protection. Read this before a civic group talks about 'efficiency.'
Voices
Who to read in each topic
Not a ranking. People and groups whose public work helps you go deeper. Save a piece to review later, or open it in a new tab.
The rules, forums, and public bodies trying to keep pace.Rights, remedies, and what the law still cannot see.Boards, buyers, workforce, and the institutions that must say yes or no.Compute, models, nations, and who holds the future in their hands.Whether capable systems can be steered toward what we actually intend.Catastrophe, loss of control, and the disagreement about how to think about either.
Gary Marcus
Scientist and writer
A persistent public critic of overclaiming. Useful when a group needs permission to ask 'does this actually work?'
Inioluwa Deborah Raji
Researcher · UC Berkeley
Wrote the case for closing the AI accountability gap: documentation, audit, and the right to know what a system was tested on.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Voluntary framework · U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
The document many institutions already have to map against. Not a voice in the personal sense, but the shared language of governance conversations.
Alondra Nelson
Former deputy director, White House OSTP · Institute for Advanced Study
Shepherded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. A civic starting point for rights language without requiring a legal training.
Future of Life Institute
Research and advocacy
Holds open letters, policy work, and explainers on catastrophic risk. Use alongside, not instead of, voices from justice and labour.