Artificial Intelligence

Cutting-edge AI software will have lasting impacts on daily life for many, and marginalized communities are especially vulnerable. Here are some instances of advocacy for transparency, legislation, and regulation of AI.

• Reclaim Your Face

  • The Reclaim Your Face initiative advocates for a ban on biometric mass surveillance, and educates the public on threats to the privacy of our biometric data.
  • (Related) TSA Scorecard: 

    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has expanded facial recognition technology to at least 25 airports across the U.S. [TSA Scorecard] is collecting information on your experience with facial recognition at a TSA checkpoint. This Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) survey will help us better understand your experience with facial recognition at airport checkpoints. Learn your rights around facial identification scanning. 
     

• Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

  • "The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech's pervasive influence." 
  • Explore DAIR's peer reviewed research here
     
• Center on Race & Digital Justice
  • "[CRDJ's] mission is to strengthen a community of academic researchers, leaders, and practitioners operating at the intersection of data, technology, power, and racial justice. [Their] work cultivates accountability, drives equity, and seeks to contribute to the restoration and expansion of civil, sovereign, and human rights that are threatened by digitally networked systems of power and control."
     
• Our Data Bodies Project
  • Our Data Bodies is "a four-person team concerned about the ways our communities' digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, [they] look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and how how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."
     
• Center for Socially Responsible AI
  • Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence aims to enhance interdisciplinary education, research, and outreach in artificial intelligence; its applications; and its impact on work, society, and all aspects of our daily lives. The Center also supports and encourages activities that enhance social good through the ethical use of AI and efforts that can mitigate threats from its misuse.

Do Those Words and Ideas Really Belong to You?

Whether intentional or accidental, plagiarism involves taking the words and ideas of others and representing them as your own. NOTE: When you use AI, the AI software may provide an output that appropriates the work of another person without disclosing the original source. If you then use that output and claim it as your own work, you may unintentionally commit plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious violation with potentially dire consequences, which raises important questions:

1. Why is plagiarism wrong? It hurts the original creator of the content, and it's dishonest.
2. How can I avoid committing plagiarism? Cite your sources! 
3. What are common types of plagiarism? According to Scribbr.com:

• Global plagiarism: Presenting an entire text by someone else as your own work.
• Verbatim plagiarism: Directly copying a passage of text without citation.
• Paraphrase plagiarism: Rephrasing someone else’s ideas without citation.
• Self plagiarism: Reusing passages and ideas from your own previously submitted work.
• Mosaic plagiarism: Combining text and ideas from different sources without citation.​
• Incorrect citation: Failing to give all the necessary information in your source citation

Maricopa Community College District Defines Plagiarism as Cheating

"Plagiarism is a form of cheating in which a student falsely represents another person’s work as his or her own – it includes, but is not limited to: (a) the use of paraphrase or direct quotation of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment; (b) unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the selling of term papers or other academic materials; and (c) information gathered from the internet and not properly identified." (MCCCD Scholastic Standards, 2.3.11 Academic Misconduct)
 

Here are some resources to help you learn more about plagiarism: