From Ethics to Organizing: Getting Serious about AI

Part of the Hariri Institute for Computing's Inaugural Distinguished Speaker Series: AI and Inequalities - Creating Change Abstract:This talk examines the political economy driving the AI industry, and the capacity of AI to exacerbate inequality and facilitate minority rule. This talk will cover AI’s recent history and capacity for social control, and how movements for justice must go beyond corporate-sponsored “ethics” and a fascination with technical mechanisms to adopt more militant tactics that contend with concentrated power.

Register by: 2/19/2021
When 11:00 am to 12:00 pm on Friday, February 26, 2021
Location Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance on Eventbrite.
Contact Name Gina Mantica
Phone 617-353-7942
Contact Email gmantica@bu.edu
Contact Organization Hariri Institute for Computing
Fees Free
Speakers Meredith Whittaker, Minderoo Research Professor, New York University, founder of Google’s Open Research group and co-founder of AI Now Institute