Fighting for Algorithmic Justice: The Struggle to Unmask AI

Hello, friends,

It’s Nabiha again. Data fuels AI. We know this—and it’s why the fights around copyright and AI are particularly fascinating right now. But it’s worth thinking about how our recent views on data and data governance are getting in the way of truly understanding AI’s impact on humanity—and what an alternative vision might look like.

Often, our data is extracted invisibly, harvested in the background while I go about my day reading, clicking on things, making purchases, and running to appointments. And so we talk about data often through the lens of individual choice and individual consent. Do I want that disclosed? Do I click “accept all cookies”? Do I care?

AI raises the stakes because now that data is not only used to make decisions about you, but rather to make deeply powerful inferences about ...