The Biased Book Club

Last Thursday, I gave the keynote at the Seqera #Nextflow conference, and one of the questions I got afterwards stuck with me:

📖 “What books can people read to become more informed about data privacy in the age of AI?”

Considering a lot of what I talked about was how we need more people to be better informed about how data is collected, aggregated, analyzed, and used, it inspired me to start a series exploring my favorite media on the topic.

For starters, I'll cover my personal favorites:

🎬 The Social Dilemma (a 2020 Netflix documentary)

♾️ Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

🚺 Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

🤖 Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill (for those at the event, this is about Clearview AI)

These books and documentaries make the subject more tangible and accessible, offering different lenses into how our data is collected, interpreted, and monetized. While many of them don’t yet address how this is being supercharged by AI, they provide essential foundations for understanding how we got to where we are.

📚 Have recommendations of your own? I’d love to hear them (and read/watch them)