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Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Network AI Ethics Book Club.
We are a group of statisticians, lawyers, data scientists, sociologists, programmers, tech workers, policy workers and others. We meet online on the third Monday of each month at from 6pm to 7:30pm Adelaide, South Australia time to discuss a book that investigates the intersections of: data, justice, statistics, politics, artificial intelligence and ethics.
Read below to see the books we've read, are reading and will read. We also have a list (that grows faster than we can get through it) of books that we'd like to read in the future.
If you'd like to join, feel free to contact one of these club members for more information or join the AICN Slack Workspace yourself and find your way to the #ethics-bookclub channel. Its important to register through the channel because we have a code of conduct that we hold ourselves accountable to.
We meet every 3rd Monday of each month except December, January & April at 6-7.30pm Adelaide time.
Join the jitsi link online: https://meet.jit.si/aicnaiethicsbookclub
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| Month - Year | Book (click for additional resources) | Author | Moderator |
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| May 2023 | The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception | David Beer | Kristen |
| June 2023 | Computer Power and Human Reason | Joseph Weizenbaum | Alex |
| July 2023 | I, Robot | Alex Proyas | Film - Book club Discussion |
| August 2023 | Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data | Carissa Veliz | Anisha |
| September 2023 | Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots | Kate Devlin | ? |
| October 2023 | Privacy in Context | Helen Nissenbaum | Kirsten |
| November 2023 | Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI | Toby Walsh | Anisha |
| Month - Year | Book (click for additional resources) | Author | Moderator |
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| March - 2023 | In AI we trust: power, illusion and control of predictive algorithms | Helga Nowotny | Kirsten |
| February - 2023 | Discussion of golden threads | Book club Discussion | Anisha |
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| November - 2021 | The Great Firewall of China | James Griffiths | Alicia |
| October - 2021 | Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | Olivia |
| Month - Year | Book (click for additional resources) | Author | Moderator | Post-it Note Art |
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| September - 2021 | Atlas of AI | Kate Crawford | Barbara |  |
| August - 2011 | Human Compatible | Stuart Russell | Laura |  |
| July - 2021 | If...Then Algorithmic Power and Politics | Taina Bucher | Kirsten |  |
| June - 2021 | Artificial Unintelligence | Meredith Broussard | Anisha |  |
| May - 2021 | Deep Fakes | Nina Schick | Tobin |  |
| April - 2021 | Technology and the Virtue | Shannon Vallor | Kirsten |  |
| March - 2021 | Race After Technology | Ruha Benjamin | Sarah |  |
| February - 2021 | Double header: Targeted and Mindf*ck | Brittany Kaiser/Christopher Wylie | Owen |  |
| January - 2021 | No book club for summer holidays | |||
| December - 2020 | The Smart Wife | Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy |
Laura |  |
| November - 2020 | Future Histories | Lizzie O’Shea | Barbara |  |
| October - 2020 | Net Privacy | Sacha Molitorisz | Laura |  |
| September - 2020 | Design Justice | Sasha Costanza-Chock | Anisha |  |
| August - 2020 | Deep Medicine | Eric Topol | Lisa |  |
| July - 2020 | Invisible Women | Caroline Criado Perez | Kirsten |  |
| June - 2020 | Uncanny Valley | Anna Weiner | Tobin | |
| May - 2020 | Rise of the Robots | Martin Ford | Sarah | |
| April - 2020 | Bad Blood | John Carrreyeou | Laura |  |
| March - 2020 | Future Politics | Jamie Susskind | Kirsten |  |
| February - 2020 | Rage Inside the Machine | Robert Elliott Smith | Anisha |  |
| January - 2020 | No book club for summer holidays | |||
| December - 2019 | Automating Inequality | Virginia Eubanks | Susan | |
| November - 2019 | Part 3: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff | Sarah |  |
| October - 2019 | Part 2: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff | Sal | |
| September - 2019 | Part 1: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff | Barbara |  |
| August - 2019 | Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O'Neil | Kristen | |
| July - 2019 | Algorithms of Oppression | Safiya Noble | Toby |  |
| June - 2019 | Made By Humans | Ellen Broad | Owen |  |
| Book | Author | Suggested By |
|---|---|---|
| Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines | John Havens | Owen |
| The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information | Frank Pasquale | |
| Sensemaking | Christian Madsbjerg | Stuart |
| Hello World | Hannah Fry | Owen |
| Valley of the Gods | Alexandra Wolfe | Owen |
| Self tracking | Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus | Owen |
| Technically Wrong | Sara Wachter-Boettcher | Owen |
| Brotopia | Emily Chang | Owen |
| Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus | Douglas Rushkoff | Owen |
| Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence | Jacob Turner | Kat |
| Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked | Zeynep Tufekci | Kat |
| Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives | Nicolas P. Suzor | Owen |
| Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine | Donald A. Norman | Pedro |
| Privacy in Context | Helen Nissenbaum | |
| The AI Mirror: Rebuilding Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking | Shannon Vallor | Alicia |
| Nobody’s Victim | Carrie Goldberg | Owen |
| The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity | Amy Webb | Owen |
| The Darkening Web | Alexander Klimburg | Owen |
| Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino | Owen |
| You Look Like a Thing and I Love You | Janelle Shane | Owen |
| The Four | Scott Galloway | |
| Humans Need Not Apply | Jerry Kaplan | Kristen |
| Rebooting AI | Gar Marcus and Ernest Davis | Owen |
| Zucked | Roger McNamee | |
| Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it | Martin Ford | |
| Dark Matters | Simone Browne | |
| Too Smart | Jason Sadowski | |
| A Human Algorithm | Flynn Conemann | |
| Webtopia – the world-wide wreck of tech | Peter Lewis | |
| Responsible Artificial Intelligence | Virginia Dignim | |
| Artificial Knowing | Alison Adam | |
| Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley | Rob Larson | |
| Machines Like Me | Ian McEwan | Donna |
| The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future | Ben Green | |
| Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia | Anthony Townsend | |
| Smart Cities: Introducing Digital Innovation to Cities | Oliver Gassmann, Jonas Böhm, Maximilian Palmié | |
| Smart Cities | Germaine Halegoua | |
| Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow | Cornelia Levy-Bencheton and Mike Barlow | |
| Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber | Susan Fowler | |
| Programmed Inequality | Mar Hicks | |
| Innovation and Equality | Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh | |
| People's Guide to AI | Mimi Onuoha | |
| Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control | Matthew Crawford | |
| The Promise of Access | Daniel Greene | |
| The Future of Everything | Tim Dunlop | |
| Abolish Silicon Valley | Wendy Liu | |
| The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism | Nick Couldry | |
| How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person | Colin Koopman | |
| Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others | Louise Amoore | |
| Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data | Louise Amoore | |
| Hashtag Activism | Sarah J. Jackson | |
| Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter | Charlton D. McIlwain | Owen |
| AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Peter Dauvergne | |
| Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology | Kentaro Toyama | |
| Humankind | Rutger Bregman | Laura |
| Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy | Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke | Owen |
| Predict and Surveil | Sarah Brayne | Laura |
| Artificial Intelligence for a better future: An ecosystem perspective on the ethics of AI and emerging digital technologies | Bernd Stahl | Kirsten |
| Privacy is Power | Carissa Veliz | Anisha |
If you are interested in joining the book club and would like more information feel free to contact these long term members:
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Kirsten Wahlstrom | Kirsten.Wahlstrom@unisa.edu.au |
| Owen Churches | @owenchurches |