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Automatic Authorities: Power and AI
Seth Lazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05990 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05990

Automatic Authorities: Power and AI
As rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence and the rise of some of history's most potent corporations meet the diminished neoliberal state, people are increasingly subject to power exercised by means of automated systems. Machine learning and related computational technologies now underpin vital government services. They connect consumers and producers in new algorithmic markets. They determine how we find out about everything from how to vote to where to get vaccinated, and whose speech is a…

Computing shortest closed curves on non-orientable surfaces
Denys Bulavka, \'Eric Colin de Verdi\`ere, Niloufar Fuladi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11749

Computing shortest closed curves on non-orientable surfaces
We initiate the study of computing shortest non-separating simple closed curves with some given topological properties on non-orientable surfaces. While, for orientable surfaces, any two non-separating simple closed curves are related by a self-homeomorphism of the surface, and computing shortest such curves has been vastly studied, for non-orientable ones the classification of non-separating simple closed curves up to ambient homeomorphism is subtler, depending on whether the curve is one-side…

(Beyond) Reasonable Doubt: Challenges that Public Defenders Face in Scrutinizing AI in Court
Angela Jin, Niloufar Salehi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13004 h…

(Beyond) Reasonable Doubt: Challenges that Public Defenders Face in Scrutinizing AI in Court
Accountable use of AI systems in high-stakes settings relies on making systems contestable. In this paper we study efforts to contest AI systems in practice by studying how public defenders scrutinize AI in court. We present findings from interviews with 17 people in the U.S. public defense community to understand their perceptions of and experiences scrutinizing computational forensic software (CFS) -- automated decision systems that the government uses to convict and incarcerate, such as faci…