Goldman

other · 2 mentions across 2 readings

In this course

Goldman appears in the readings as a documentarian of institutional violence and obstruction, specifically regarding efforts to prosecute members of Guatemala's military for murder. The excerpts suggest his work demonstrates how powerful actors threatened by investigation don't simply conceal evidence but actively fabricate and plant false information—a pattern that contextualizes the course's concern with how systems (whether legal, military, or AI-driven) can be weaponized to obscure accountability rather than reveal truth.

Mentioned in 2 readings

Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

from Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest

As Goldman documented the long and dangerous process of bringing at least a few of those responsible within the Guatemalan military to justice for this murder, he observed that those threatened by the investigation didn’t merely plant evide…

Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

For example, OpenAI’s leaders have described their tools as “slightly conscious” [112], and predict that “in the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice” [113]. Venkatasubramanian …

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