I work at the intersection of law, technology and society, and study the impact of digital technologies on socio-political and legal processes and structures. My research aims to further the discourse on regulatory practices around digital technologies. I am currently a Senior Fellow-Trustworthy AI at Mozilla Foundation studying models for algorithmic transparency, and Information Fellow at Tech Policy Press.
Knowing without Seeing
Knowing without Seeing is a research project which explores meaningful transparency solutions for opaque algorithms, and privileges understanding over merely accessing information. I will critically question the transparency ideal in the context of AI systems employing opaque algorithms and will culminate in an open-access book. This research will view transparency as an instrumental value designed to achieve accountability of systems by empowering individuals. I will articulate the contours of this version of transparency and speculate how it may be delivered in practice, and assimilated in regulation.
The Networked Public
In this book, I investigate the history of misinformation and the biases that make the public susceptible to it, how digital platforms and their governance impacts the public’s behaviour on them, as well as the changing face of political targeting in this data-driven world. The book weaves sharp analysis with academic rigour to show that while the public can be irrational and gullible, their actions—be it mob violence or spreading fake news—are symptoms of deeper social malaise and products of their technological contexts.
The book is available for sale here.
Homo Digitalis is my newsletter about technology policy, focusing on algorithmic systems, transparency, democracy and everything in between and around. Through 2024, it will focus on elections and digital systems.