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A look at Microsoft's AI system to predict teenage pregnancies in Argentina's Salta province, which faced pushback from activists for being invasive and opaque

Wired

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  • @wired @wired on x
    Salta's AI system to “predict pregnancy” was hailed as futuristic. In reality, it was an extension of a long Argentine tradition: controlling the population through surveillance and force. https://www.wired.com/...
  • @wired @wired on x
    The feminist activists of Argentina may spark yet another wave of resistance, this time to transform how we live with AI and evaluate its harms—a “pink rescue” from discriminatory and dangerous AI. https://www.wired.com/...
  • @gquaggiotto @gquaggiotto on x
    How activists fought against Argentina's “technology platform for social intervention” https://www.wired.com/...
  • @baxterkb Kathy Baxter on x
    Horrifying! “The idea that algorithms can predict teenage pregnancy before it happens is the perfect excuse for anti-women & anti-sexual & reproductive rights activists to declare abortion laws unnecessary,” wrote feminist scholars Paz Peña & Joana Varon https://www.wired.com/...
  • @fabiochiusi Fabio Chiusi on x
    Stop assuming that everything *can* and *therefore should* be predicted by algorithms — now https://twitter.com/...