Shows
Computer Says MaybeAI Safety’s Spiral of Urgency w/ Shazeda AhmedAre you tired of hearing the phrase ‘AI Safety’ and rolling your eyes? Do you also sometimes think… okay but what is technically wrong with advocating for ‘safer’ AI systems? Do you also wish we could have more nuanced conversations about China and AI?In this episode Shazeda Ahmed goes deep on the field of AI Safety, explaining that it is a community that is propped up by its own spiral of reproduced urgency; and that so much of it is rooted in American anti-China sentiment. Read: the fear that the big scary authoritarian country will build AGI before...2025-02-1455 min
Events at USIPHuawei’s Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean
USIP’s new report “Huawei’s Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean: Views from the Region” explores some of the key reasons behind Huawei’s success in Latin America using original interviews with Huawei staff and industry specialists in the region. On May 31, USIP held a discussion with the report’s author and other experts that looked at the report’s findings and examined the stark contrast between Huawei’s standing in the United States and its neighbors to the south.
Speakers
Lyndi Tsering, introductionProgram Specialist, U.S. Institute of Peace
Parsifal D’Sola...2024-06-011h 03
The Tech Policy Press PodcastResisting AI and the Consolidation of PowerIn an introduction to a special issue of the journal First Monday on topics related to AI and power, Jenna Burrell and Jacob Metcalf argue that "what can and cannot be said inside of mainstream computer science publications appears to be constrained by the power, wealth, and ideology of a small cohort of industrialists. The result is that shaping discourse about the AI industry is itself a form of power that cannot be named inside of computer science." The papers in the journal go on to interrogate the epistemic culture of AI safety, the promise of utopia through artificial g...2024-05-0453 min
OverthinkAI Safety with Shazeda AhmedWelcome your robot overlords! In episode 101 of Overthink, Ellie and David speak with Dr. Shazeda Ahmed, specialist in AI Safety, to dive into the philosophy guiding artificial intelligence. With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, the lofty utilitarian principles of Effective Altruism have taken the tech-world spotlight by storm. Many who work on AI safety and ethics worry about the dangers of AI, from how automation might put entire categories of workers out of a job to how future forms of AI might pose a catastrophic “existential risk” for humanity as a whole. And yet, optimistic CEOs portray AI as t...2024-04-0957 min
London FuturistsAssessing the AI duopoly, with Jeff DingAdvanced AI is currently pretty much a duopoly between the USA and China. The US is the clear leader, thanks largely to its tech giants – Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple. China also has a fistful of tech giants – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are the ones usually listed, but the Chinese government has also taken a strong interest in AI since Deep Mind’s Alpha Go system beat the world’s best Go player in 2016.People in the West don’t know enough about China’s current and future role in AI. Some think its companies just copy their W...2023-02-2231 min
NüVoicesChinese AI, Cybersecurity, and Internet Policy with Shazeda AhmedOur last podcast episode of 2021 features Shazeda Ahmed on Chinese cybersecurity, technology, and internet policy. Shazeda is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley's School of Information and is joined by guest host (and DC board member) Rui Zhong. How are Chinese courtrooms utilizing AI? What is algorithmic discrimination and how are Chinese companies reacting? Rui also asks Shazeda her perspective on the big question: is the U.S. in a Tech Cold War with China? All of this and more in this season finale of the NüVoices Podcast. 2021-12-2243 min
AI Asia Pacific Institute Podcast#32: Amba Kak and Shazeda Ahmed on the Implications of Biometrics & Emotion RecognitionToday, we are welcoming Amba Kak and Shazeda Ahmed from the AI Now Institute: A research institute examining the social implications of artificial intelligence. Amba is currently Director of Global Policy & Programs at AI Now Institute at New York University where she develops and leads the Institute’s global policy engagement and partnerships, and is also a fellow at the NYU School of Law. Amba has over a decade of experience in the field of technology-related policy across multiple jurisdictions and has provided her expertise to government regulators, civil society organizations, and philanthropies. She is currently part of the St...2021-03-1757 min
FernostwärtsFOW045 - Mythbusting China's Social Credit System (with Shazeda Ahmed) [EN]
State Council of the PRC
Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020)
Xiamen
Memorandum of Understanding on Carrying Out Joint Punishments Against Entities with Serious Illegal Untrustworthiness in the Government Procurement Sector
Credit China
Shazeda Ahmed: „The Messy Truth About Social Credit“
NDRC
Dai Xin: „Toward a Reputation State: The Social Credit System Project of China“
Liu Hu’s story on China Law Translate
VICE News: China’s Citizen Tracking System Can Wreck People’s Lives
Fusion centers
Positionality
Nathan VanderKlippe: „Chinese blacklist an early glimpse of sweeping new social-credit control“
If you want to support us in purc...2019-08-141h 10
MERICS China PodcastShazeda Ahmed on China’s Social Credit SystemSeptember 15, 2017In setting up the so called Social Credit System, China plans to monitor, rate and regulate the behavior of citizens and companies with the help of big data, rewarding those who obey the rules and punishing those who cheat or don’t conform. “Social Credit is seen as a means of making people, companies, entire industrial sectors and the government more honest by monitoring behaviors,” says Shazeda Ahmed, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Visiting Academic Fellow at MERICS. The digital mechanism the system is based on will collect data on every single...2017-09-1516 min