Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability

Janet Vertesi, Danah Boyd, Alex S. Taylor, Benjamin Shestakofsky. Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability. In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 25-28, 2026. pages 2186-2205, ACM, 2026. [doi]

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  title = {Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability},
  author = {Janet Vertesi and Danah Boyd and Alex S. Taylor and Benjamin Shestakofsky},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3805689.3806739},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3806739},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/VertesibTS26},
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  pages = {2186-2205},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 25-28, 2026},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {979-8-4007-2596-8},
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