Sipping on NYPD Tears: Public Oversight of Surveillance Technologies (with Rashida Richardson)
/Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy at the AI Now Institute joins the WBI show to discuss the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act she wrote while at NYCLU, the limitations of the law as a tool in addressing or mitigating the harm of automated decision making systems (ADSs) and the amount of time she has for institutions waking up from their 450 year slumber to the realities of racial capitalism.
How can we distinguish the types of action big tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon and IBM are taking to respond to public demands to end contracts with law enforcement? She puts us on the spot asking, will the title of this podcast will get to most of America? Will we have a little more imagination on what makes an actually racially equitable and just society because the efforts of most of these institutions are still drawing on logic based on assimilation, “here let’s throw a few things at you and let’s go back to business as usual”?
Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Stanley Muñoz and Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis
Links for the Episode:
A Shadow Report of the New York City Automated Decision System Task Force
POST Act
New York City Council Committee on Public Safety Creating Comprehensive Reporting and Oversight of NYPD Surveillance Technologies
Recommendations:
Rashida Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, Authors: Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, Exclusive first look at Bruce Lee 30 for 30 'Be Water'
llan Junkspace by Rem Koolhaas
Stanley Black Study, Black Struggle, Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Khadijah Architectures of Sound : Michael Fowler, Demonic Grounds, NYC Trans Oral History Project
