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Debunking Myths on the National Security Impact of Warrants for U.S. Person Queries
Graphic for a CDT report, entitled "To AI or Not To AI: A Practice Guide for Public Agencies to Decide Whether to Proceed with Artificial Intelligence." Falling dark blue gradient of 1s and 0s.

To AI or Not To AI: A Practice Guide for Public Agencies to Decide Whether to Proceed with Artificial Intelligence
Graphic for CDT report, entitled "Adaptation and Innovation: The Civic Space Response to AI-Infused Elections." Illustration of a transparent ballot box, surrounded by a swirling "information environment" of papers, social media posts, and ballots, hovering above earth. Ominous digital thunderstorms (clouds and lightning) float around the ballot box.

Adaptation and Innovation: The Civic Space Response to AI-Infused Elections
Graphic for CDT report, entitled "Building A Disability-Inclusive AI Ecosystem." Illustration with a mainframe computer, surrounded by web browser windows showing persons with disabilities in different contextual data systems, and data blocks. Top to bottom, left to right: person in a blue shirt wearing headphones; person in an orange shirt; person in a green shirt wearing a NJ tube; person in a purple shirt with a limb difference.

Building A Disability-Inclusive AI Ecosystem: A Cross-Disability, Cross-Systems Analysis Of Best Practices
Graphic for a CDT and Coworker.org report, entitled "What Do Workers Want?" Illlustration of 4 panels of a multi-racial working class; the top left shows a bearded Sikh man driving a car; top right shows an older Asian woman on a laptop, bottom right shows a Black man holding a scanner at a packing warehouse; bottom left shows a Latina woman wearing a call center headset; a circular vignette of a security camera is at the center.

What Do Workers Want? A CDT/Coworker Deliberative Poll on Workplace Surveillance and Datafication
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Adopting More Holistic Approaches to Assess the Impacts of AI Systems
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Intersectional Disparities within Automated Hate-speech Detection Across US Centered Social Media Content 
Graphic for CDT Research report, entitled "Real Time Threats." Illustration of a smartphone showing a warped grid and a recording button; the phone is surrounded by a "LIVE" icon, a warning icon in front of a cloud of smoke, chat bubbles, image icons, an eye, a video, a voice note; Tetris-like blocks are interspersed between all the elements.

Real Time Threats: Analysis of Trust and Safety Practices for Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) Prevention on Livestreaming Platforms
Graphic for CDT Research report, entitled "Screened Out: The Impact of Digitized Hiring Assessments on Disabled Workers." A multi-panel color illustration includes a wheelchair user typing, a person with headphones facing an error on a laptop, a close-up of a person with a hearing aid, and a person with glasses. Geometric shapes and icons connect these panels, highlighting hiring assessments and discrimination disabled people face.

Screened Out: The Impact of Digitized Hiring Assessments on Disabled Workers
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Beyond High-Risk Scenarios: Recentering the Everyday Risks of AI
CDT brief, entitled "Beyond English-Centric AI: Lessons on Community Participation from Non-English NLP Groups." Black and white document on a grey background.

Beyond English-Centric AI: Lessons on Community Participation from Non-English NLP Groups
Graphic for a CDT and University of Pittsburgh report, entitled "Hated More: Online Violence Targeting Women of Color Candidates in the 2024 US Election." Black text on a light grey background.

Report – Hated More: Online Violence Targeting Women of Color Candidates in the 2024 US Election