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Humane AI

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Topics include the societal impacts of AI, human rights implications of surveillance technologies, consumer privacy and data protection, social media governance, and more. Click to read Humane AI, by Roya Pakzad, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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2026 3

  1. Three AI Agents, Two Countries, and One Very Uneven World Wide Web
  2. You're Welcome, Mr. Supreme Leader
  3. Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and Evaluating LLM Guardrails

2025 1

  1. "Bring Your Whole Self" - Unless You Have a Toddler

2024 1

  1. Navigating Parenthood and GenAI

2023 2

  1. Old Advocacy, New Algorithms: How 16th century "Devil's Advocates” Shaped AI Red Teaming
  2. Technology, Pregnancy, and Parenthood

2021 2

  1. Twitter's Bias Bounty: Gazing at the Mother Tongue
  2. Announcing the Technology and Human Rights Fellows

2020 2

  1. Developers, Choose Wisely: a Guide for Responsible Use of Machine Learning APIs
  2. Technology and Human Rights… in Comics!

2019 3

  1. From polygraphs to modern lie detectors: what past failures can teach us today
  2. Human Rights Implications of IBM Watson’s ‘Personality Insights’ Tool
  3. When AI Meets Nowruz

2018 7

  1. The origin of the Mechanical Turk and Stalin’s “deepfakes”
  2. Regulating Online Platforms: By Whom, and for Whom?
  3. Designing for Ethics
  4. In the age of growing cyber-threats, how do philanthropic organizations have our back?
  5. Human Rights Advocacy in the Dawning Age of AI
  6. Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Responsibility
  7. Ethics in Machine Learning

2017 1

  1. Swipe Left: Privacy Practices of Online Dating Apps