The Open Society Foundations will host a discussion on “National Security Secrecy and Surveillance: Defending the Public’s Right to Know” on April 4 in New York City.
I will moderate a panel of speakers including NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, investigative journalist Timothy Shorrock, and ACLU attorney Jameel Jaffer.
Seating is limited. For more information and to RSVP see here.
The clearinghouse will also neutrally mediate the assignment of auditors to audits—strengthening independence, trust, and ethical governance across the AI ecosystem.
The potential implication of these evidence gaps becomes more consequential when you look at how institutions actually make decisions day to day.
Every new institution inherits something – existing incentives, existing staff, decades of prior investment that shaped what’s possible.
This is not the first time Google has agreed to censor imagery at the behest of governments, but be warned: obfuscation at this broad level poses a direct threat to the public’s ability to monitor and scrutinize government operations.