Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public and Mitigating Harms of AI | AI2

Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public and Mitigating Harms of AI
Nicholas Vincent

Many powerful computing technologies rely on both implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. This dependency suggests a potential source of leverage for the public in its relationship with technology companies: by reducing, stopping, redirecting, or otherwise manipulating data contributions, a group of people can reduce the effectiveness of the lucrative technologies of an organization they wish to pressure to change, or boost up …

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