List #4 - Predicting Psychopathy... via Airbnb
What I’m reading…
🔮 Airbnb Claims Its AI Can Predict Whether Guests Are Psychopaths, Kristin Houser, Futurism
🖥 Artificial Intelligence Can Help America's Mental Health Crisis, Sieeka Khan, The Science Times
👁 One Nation, Tracked: An Investigation into the Smartphone Tracking Industry, Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel, The New York Times
“They can see the places you go every moment of the day, whom you meet with or spend the night with, where you pray, whether you visit a methadone clinic, a psychiatrist’s office…’
⚖ Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice, Annette Zimmermann, Elena Di Rosa, Hochan Kim, The Boston Review.
“The cure for algorithmic bias may not be more, or better, algorithms. There may be some machine learning systems that should not be deployed in the first place, no matter how much we can optimize them."
⚫A Child advice chatbots fail to spot sexual abuse, Geoff White, BBC News
📱 Smartphone apps: can they improve our mental health? James Lloyd, BBCScience Focus
What I’m preparing…
…still preparing a literature review.
📚 Annotated Bibliography - Mental health, digital technology and law.
This brief may be of interest to those who want to know what kind of scholarship is out there on law & digital & emerging technologies in the mental health context. The bibliography builds on the one I shared in the last email, & includes scholarly literature right up to 2020.