A São Paulo Court Looked at Who Assigns the Deliveries, Not at Who Explains Them
On 5 December 2024 a São Paulo labour appeals court recognised an employment relationship for all iFood couriers and ordered R$10 million […]
The Three NHS Trusts Don’t Exist: What AI Triage in English A&E Actually Is Right Now
A story circulates that England’s NHS has rolled out automated triage in emergency departments, with independent trust-by-trust evaluations to prove it. Looking […]
To Get Into the Test, a Question Must First Fail: Inside the Craft of Building AI Benchmarks
Legacy benchmarks are saturated, and the people who design them have had to reinvent the job: questions pre-screened by the models themselves, […]
In Chile and Uruguay, Water Changed the Blueprint. It Did Not Change the Market
A Chilean environmental court partly voided the permit for Google’s Cerrillos data centre; in Uruguay, protests during the 2023 drought produced one […]
Masakhane Is Not Ten Years Old, and No Longer Just Volunteers: Who Actually Annotates Yoruba, Amharic and Swahili
Masakhane began in 2018 as an insight by two South African researchers and launched formally in 2019 in Nairobi. In under eight […]
Taiwan’s Fact-Checkers Are Human Volunteers. The AI Showed Up on the Attacking Side
Taiwan is routinely described as the world’s lab for automated fact-checking. The documented record says something else: on Cofacts, replies come from […]
New York Keeps COMPAS Secret for an Accounting Reason: Copying It Would Cost Too Little
In September 2023 an Albany court denied a records request for the formulas and decile cutoffs behind COMPAS, the risk assessment tool […]
Amsterdam’s Algorithm Register Is Being Shut Down. That’s the Good News
In September 2020 Amsterdam and Helsinki launched the world’s first public registers of municipal algorithms. Six years on, Amsterdam’s is being folded […]
South Korea’s Election Deepfake Ban: 769 Takedowns, One Complaint Filed
Since 29 January 2024, South Korean election law has banned campaign deepfakes in the 90 days before a vote. Two election cycles […]
Kenya’s Cases Against Meta and Sama Moved the Jurisdiction, Not the Pay Slips
Since 2022, Kenyan courts have become the forum where the question of who answers for the human labour behind commercial AI is […]