Noah Levenson (born 1981) is an American computer programmer and the creator of
Stealing Ur Feelings', an interactive project that won
Mozilla's $50,000 prize for art and advocacy exploring artificial intelligence. Stealing Ur Feelings won the 2020
Webby Award in the category of Immersive And Mixed Reality.
Career
In 2017, Levenson created
Weird Box'' an interactive project about social media privacy that was featured in
Fast Company and
SFist
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In 2018, he created ''Stealing Ur Feelings'', a web-based augmented reality experience that was awarded Mozilla's $50,000 prize for art and advocacy exploring artificial intelligence. The project explores the dangers of facial emotion recognition AI in consumer applications. It was executive produced by
Brett Gaylor
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, director of ''
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''Stealing Ur Feelings'' premiered at the 2019
Tribeca Film Festival and was an official selection of the
Camden International Film Festival and
Montreal International Documentary Festival.
Levenson's work has been the subject of articles in
Scientific American,
Engadget, and
El Pais
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. He has been interviewed about artificial intelligence and corporate practices for ''
Report'' on
Rai3 and
CBC Radio One.
He has written about the internet and meme culture for the
NY Daily News.
References
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1981 births
Living people
American computer programmers