The Wallaces: From Burning the Bronx, through Public Health, to the Perils of Artificial Intelligence

Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS)

<P>Rodrick and Deborah Wallace have distinguished themselves across a diverse range of diciplines including public health, fire risk and deployment, and urban planning. From their early work identifying shortcomings of fire department policy during the burning of the South Bronx and other communities in the 1970s, through cataloging the social and neighborhood dynamics of communicatble disease and connections to broader public health, the Wallaces are a major force in explaining connections between basic services health, social relations, and community prosperity. Thir empirically-driven work cobines mathematical rigor with incisive theory to illuminate a range of social ills. Join us for a freewheeling retrospective of their many contributions, with an emphasis on their most recent work related to Artificial Intelligence and economics in society. </P>
<P>The lecture will explain hazards of relying on algorithms to drive public policy, emphasizing automated vehicles systems and criminal justice.</P>