TechTalks: Tackling Race, Bias & Inequality in Artificial Intelligence
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TechTalks: Tackling Race, Bias & Inequality in Artificial Intelligence

By NYPL TechConnect
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February 26, 2021 at 11pm UTC
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting our lives and interacting with the biases and inequalities that exist in our society.

TechTalks: Tackling Race, Bias & Inequality in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting our lives and interacting with the biases and inequalities that exist in our society. What does this mean for people of color? Can we—and should we—regulate AI? How do we harness its power to create a more just and equitable future? Hear from our panel of experts for a lively discussion about how AI is transforming our society and what next steps we can all take.

Guests:

Julia Stoyanovich (Director of the Center for Responsible AI, Assistant Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering and Center for Data Science at NYU)

Eric Corbett (Researcher in Smart Cities and Human-Computer Interaction at the Center for Urban Science & Progress at NYU)

Safiya Umoja Noble (author of Algorithms of Oppression, Associate Professor in the departments of Information Studies and African American Studies at UCLA)

Brian Christian (author of The Alignment Problem, Algorithms to Live By, and The Most Human Human)

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting our lives and interacting with the biases and inequalities that exist in our society.

TechTalks: Tackling Race, Bias & Inequality in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting our lives and interacting with the biases and inequalities that exist in our society. What does this mean for people of color? Can we—and should we—regulate AI? How do we harness its power to create a more just and equitable future? Hear from our panel of experts for a lively discussion about how AI is transforming our society and what next steps we can all take.

Guests:

Julia Stoyanovich (Director of the Center for Responsible AI, Assistant Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering and Center for Data Science at NYU)

Eric Corbett (Researcher in Smart Cities and Human-Computer Interaction at the Center for Urban Science & Progress at NYU)

Safiya Umoja Noble (author of Algorithms of Oppression, Associate Professor in the departments of Information Studies and African American Studies at UCLA)

Brian Christian (author of The Alignment Problem, Algorithms to Live By, and The Most Human Human)

@NYPLTechConnect

#NYPLTechTalks

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