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. [1] Stealing Ur Feelings won the 2020 Webby Award in the category of Immersive And Mixed Reality. [2]
In 2017, Levenson created Weird Box, an interactive project about social media privacy that was featured in Fast Company [3] and SFist. [4]
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. [5] It was executive produced by Brett Gaylor, director of Do Not Track .
Stealing Ur Feelings premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival [6] and was an official selection of the Camden International Film Festival [7] and Montreal International Documentary Festival. [8]
Levenson's work has been the subject of articles in Scientific American, [9] Engadget, [10] and El Pais. [11] He has been interviewed about artificial intelligence and corporate practices for Report on Rai3 [12] and CBC Radio One. [13]
He has written about the internet and meme culture for the NY Daily News. [14]