Sonja Solomun
Title:
Research Director, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
Department:
Max Bell School of Public Policy
Fields:
Artificial Intelligence
Government / Democratic Institutions
Policy
Public Policy
Technology
Areas of expertise:
Platforms; social media; technology; Facebook; Twitter; politics; democracy; artificial intelligence (AI); facial recognition; racial discrimination; algorithms; algorithmic bias
Language(s) spoken:
English
French
Language(s) written:
English
French
Media availability:
Print
Radio
Television
Interviews:
- Top researchers condemn ‘racially biased’ face-based crime prediction, Financial Times, June 24, 2020
- AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms, MIT Technology Review, June 23, 2020
- The Microsoft police state: Mass surveillance, facial recognition, and the azure cloud, The Intercept, July 14, 2020
- Facial recognition to 'predict criminals' sparks row over AI bias, BBC News, June 24, 2020
- Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime, Vice, June 23, 2020
- An Algorithm That ‘Predicts’ Criminality Based on a Face Sparks a Furor, Wired, June 24, 2020
- AI researchers condemn predictive crime software, citing racial bias and flawed methods, Tech Crunch, June 24, 2020
- AI experts say research into algorithms that claim to predict criminality must end, The Verge, June 24, 2020
