Reading · Summer 2026 Reading from MIT
Auditing AI
By Karrie G. Karahalios, professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab; Marc Aidinoff PhD '22; Nathan Matias SM '13, PhD '17; Christian Sandvig; Alondra Nelson; Kristen Vaccaro; Esha Bhandari; Ellery Roberts Biddle; Lena Armstrong; Motahhare Eslami; and Danaé Metaxa
MIT Press · 2026
This book serves as a first-of-its-kind roadmap for auditing artificial intelligence systems to prevent decision-making failures in health care, policing, and employment. Using canonical examples of AI gone wrong, from misidentified facial recognition to biased hiring algorithms, this book explains why robust audits are essential and how they drive concrete policy and corporate change.
From Summer 2026 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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