Data & Society Research Institute
On March 19, 2026 in a conversation moderated by D&S AI on the Ground program director Ranjit Singh, Kristin M. Branson, Lisa Messeri, and Nicole C. Nelson discussed the impact of machine learning
In a conversation moderated by researchers Livia Garofalo and Briana Vecchione, Luca Belli, AI safety lead at Spring Health; Miranda Bogen, founding director of the AI Governance Lab at the Center ...
In her new report (404) Job Not Found: What Workforce Training Can’t Fix for Black Atlantans in the Age of AI, Data & Society researcher Anuli Akanegbu provides the first ethnographic examination
After a turbulent first year, this discussion featured experts — academic and policy advisor Alondra Nelson, independent writer and editor Edward Ongweso Jr., and WIRED reporter Vittoria Elliott — ...
In this moment of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, there are thousands of tech workers who are concerned about the realities of climate change and see the tech industry’s growing role...
At the start of San Francisco Climate Week 2025 (April 18-26, 2025), Data & Society's program director of Climate, Technology, and Justice in collaboration with Tech Workers' Coalition (TWC) hoste
Democracy faces challenges around the world, and artificial intelligence is further compounding them. In their book 'Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizens...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not magic or sentient; it does not even describe one coherent set of technologies. In two new books, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, and Karen Hao explore how AI instea...
Recorded on May 6, 2025 at The Greene Space in NYC
Featuring Dr. Julián Posada and Aiha Nguyen
Resources and recordings will be shared here: https://datasociety.net/events/what-is-work-worth/.
On April 10th, Anita Say Chan, author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (UCP 2025 and open access), joined Émile P. Torres and Timnit Gebru for a discu...
Physical and digital infrastructures have raised tensions around the world, seeding land disputes, climate effects, and disrupting social fabrics. Yet they are also intertwined with myths of progre...
What exactly is generative AI (genAI) red-teaming? What strategies and standards should guide its implementation? And how can it protect the public interest? In this conversation, Lama Ahmad, Camil...
Code Dependent spans stories from across the globe and calls attention to the voices of ordinary people as they navigate the everyday challenges of living with data-driven systems and work to recla...
"...every technical system is designed with a particular perspective and a vision to transform society, but this transformation does not happen equally for everyone. So paying attention to the diff...
"What has become clear to me over the past years is that this kind of cross-movement building work is essential if technology is going to be seen and owned by different people and different spaces....
"We have to expand our remit to invite people to develop our vision together and to start in places where we don't really know what is going to come at the end. We have to really start thinking abo...
"I have always so admired Data & Society's approach: it’s about rights, it’s about a Bill of Rights, it’s about human rights, and that is absolutely fundamental... But I want to put another lever
On October 9, 2025 Tamara Kneese (Director of Climate, Technology, and Justice at Data & Society) and Cecilia Marrinan (Tech Policy Associate at the Kapor Foundation) moderated a discussion on the
When Data & Society was founded ten years ago, it was rooted in the insight that data-centric technologies have broad and often unseen impacts on society — and that to better understand those impa
"Tonight, we are here to celebrate what Data & Society has become: a premier source of rigorous and relevant knowledge, evidence, and insight into the ways that emerging technologies shape and imp