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Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment
David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman
In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfi…
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
David Gray Widder, Mar Hicks
Only a few short months ago, Generative AI was sold to us as inevitable by the leadership of AI companies, those who partnered with them, and venture capitalists. As certain elemen…
From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value Chains
Agathe Balayn, Yulu Pi, David Gray Widder +9
This workshop will grow and consolidate a community of interdisciplinary CSCW researchers focusing on the topic of contestable AI. As an outcome of the workshop, we will synthesize…
Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions
David Gray Widder, Laura Dabbish, James Herbsleb +1
Past work has sought to design AI ethics interventions--such as checklists or toolkits--to help practitioners design more ethical AI systems. However, other work demonstrates how t…
What is a "bug"? On subjectivity, epistemic power, and implications for software research
David Gray Widder, Claire Le Goues
Considerable effort in software research and practice is spent on bugs. Finding, reporting, tracking, triaging, attempting to fix them automatically, detecting "bug smells" -these…
Epistemic Power in AI Ethics Labor: Legitimizing Located Complaints
David Gray Widder
What counts as legitimate AI ethics labor, and consequently, what are the epistemic terms on which AI ethics claims are rendered legitimate? Based on 75 interviews with technologis…