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This website highlights the impacts of algorithms designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control human beings. It is based on Prediction and Punishment, a report written to expose key issues at the intersection of the carceral system and artificial intelligence (AI). Much of the information in this report was sourced directly from presentations by participants in Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI, which took place at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh in February 2024.
As a community, we stand against the use of carceral technologies. We invite researchers, community organizers, policy-makers, and interested community members to learn about the current state of AI in the carceral system and our recommendations. A pdf version of our report can also be downloaded.
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Prediction and Punishment was written by Dasha Pruss, Hannah Pullen-Blasnik, Nikki Stevens, Shakeer Rahman, Clara Belitz, Logan Stapleton, Mallika G. Dharmaraj, Mizue Aizeki, Petra Molnar, Annika Pinch, Nathan Ryan, Thallita Lima, David Gray Widder, Amiya Tiwari, Ly XÄ«nzhèn ZhÇŽngsÅ«n, Jason S. Sexton, and Pablo Nunes.
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Other workshop participants contributed to the ideas contained in the report, including Colin Allen, Chaz Arnett, Laura Bingham, Erin Collins, Frances Corry, Pedro Diogo, Jessica Eaglin, Marissa Gerchick, Tobi Jegede, Gabbrielle Johnson, Donal Khosrowi, Alphoncina Lyamuya, Amreeta Mathai, Darakhshan Mir, Angie Belen Monreal, Santiago Narváez, Ngozi Okidegbe, Sarah Riley, Cierra Robson, Lian Song, Kate Weisburd, and Clifton “Skye” Williamson. Our report also builds on the work of activist collectives that have resisted and built understanding of carceral technologies, including the Carceral Tech Resistance Network, Stop LAPD Spying, O Panóptico, Against Carceral Tech, as well as Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s work on carceral technoscience.
The carceral AI workshop was organized by Dasha Pruss and Colin Allen and was generously supported by the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, Pitt Cyber, the Embedded EthiCS program at Harvard University, Professor Gayle Rogers, and Professor Ronald Brand. We are grateful to the Embedded EthiCS research group and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University for their feedback on early drafts of this report.
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Illustrations in this report are by Dasha Pruss and were inspired by artwork by Douglas Lopes for O Panóptico; David Gray Widder; and Simon Montag for the Atlantic. The website was designed by Amiya Tiwari and funded by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Questions? You can contact us at carceral.ai@gmail.com.