The Role of Data/AI in Struggles for Justice

Academic

Barabas, Chelsea. 2023. Care as (re)capture: Data colonialism and race during times of crisis. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231165902

Barabas, Chelsea. 2022. “Refusal in Data Ethics: Re-Imagining the Code Beneath the Code of Computation in the Carceral State.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 8(2): 35–57. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2022.1233.

Barabas, Chelsea. 2020. Beyond Bias: Re-imagining the Terms of "Ethical AI" in Criminal Law, 12 Geo. J. L. Mod. Critical Race Persp. 2.

• Presentation: Beyond Algorithmic Reform: Re-imagining the Role of AI and Statistical Discourse in Criminal Law

Barabas et al. 2020. “Studying up: reorienting the study of algorithmic fairness around issues of power.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 167–176.

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Barabas et al. 2018. Interventions Over Predictions: Reframing the Ethical Debate for Actuarial Risk Assessment. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* ‘18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY.

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Barabas, Chelsea. 2019, Invited talk at NeurIPS, Contextualizing AI Within The History of Exploitation and Innovation In Medical Research

Public Advocacy and Popular Press

Surveillance Isn’t Safety: How Communities Are Re-imagining Safety in School

Hall Monitors: Rather than protect kids, increased surveillance in schools targets students of color for exclusionary discipline.

To Build a Better Future, Designers Need to Start Saying ‘No’

Open Letter: Abolish the Tech-to-Prison Pipeline

Open Letter to AG Barr re: The Use of PATTERN risk assessment in prioritizing release in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Open Letter to the Members of the MA Legislature Re: The Adoption of Actuarial Risk Assessment Tools in the Criminal Justice System

Open Letter: Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

NYT Op-Ed: The Problems With Risk Assessment Tools

Podcast: How to Balance AI and Criminal Justice

Cryptocurrency and the Digital Commons

Bitcoin and the Myth of Decentralization: Socio-technical Proposals for Restoring Network Integrity

Defending Internet Freedom Through Decentralization: Back to the Future?

Decentralized Social Networks Sound Great. Too Bad They'll Never Work.

The New Bitcoin Myth

Bitcoin's Rise in African Markets is Driven by an Old Russian Ponzi Scheme

Presentation: Patient Centered Health on the Blockchain

Diversity, Automation and the Labor Market

Engineering the American Dream: A Study of Bias and Perceptions of Merit in the High-Tech Labor Market

Pathways to Prosperity in the 21st Century

Transforming Chaos into Clarity: The Promises and Challenges of Digital Credentialing

Presentation: Redefining "The Best" in Hiring and Recruitment in Tech