List #12 - Data-for-Service and Robots in Care Homes
What am I reading?
⚖ Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data, David Adam, MIT Technology Review (13 Aug 2020)($ paywall); open access publication here. (I’m quoted about half-way through).
🤖 Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness, Robert Booth, Guardian (8 Sept 2020).
‘Robots… are to be deployed in some UK care homes after an international trial found they boosted mental health and reduced loneliness.’
🚩 You can get a robot to keep your lonely grandparents company. Should you?Sigal Samuel,Vox (9 Sept 2020)
🚨 British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood, Thomas Macaulay, The Next Web (17 Aug 2020) (and short tweet-critique from Mozilla Fellow Frederike Kaltheuner, outlining why the move is a boondoggle)
‘Emotion detection AI is estimated to be a $20 billion market but there’s still little scientific evidence that the tech really works.’
⚠ Artificial Intelligence Myths,a helpful website by fellow Mozilla Fellow and resident philosopher at Access Now, Daniel Leufer.
COVID-19 Related…
👁 The Pandemic Is No Excuse to Surveil Students, Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic (4 September 2020)
🔬 WA man set to be first Australian fitted with tracking device for alleged COVID-19 breach, Briana Shepherd, ABC (30 August 2020)