By CLARENCE OKOH, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR EXCERPT: Last month, the White House announced its highly anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the Biden administration missed another critical opportunity to address the AI civil rights crisis unfolding across Black communities nationwide. Read the full article here.
By Clarence Okoh: In this panel presentation, members of the NOTICE Coalition (“No Tech Criminalization in Education”) provide an overview of how controversial police surveillance technologies are entering schools nationwide, enabling a new digital rendering of the school-to-prison pipeline. The presentation also featured an interactive…
By Clarence Okoh: Police surveillance tools such as gunshot detection, social media surveillance, facial recognition technology, predictive policing software, and “smart” camera networks have proliferated in communities of color, and have drawn criticism for racial discrimination, privacy abuses, and systemic civil and human rights violations.…
Clarence Okoh "talked about how the laws designed to protect student privacy don’t think about civil rights protection, and that this data is often used to discriminate against student populations."