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[Book Launch] Unmasking AI Popular Event

With Joy Buolamwini (Founder, Algorithmic Justice League), Sinead Bovell (Founder, Waye).

	Ford Foundation, 320 E 43rd St
	Oct 31 (Tue) , 2023 @ 02:00 PM
	FREE

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Please join us on Tuesday, October 31st at 2 pm in NYC for the book launch of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Dr. Joy Buolamwini. Dr. Joy is a world-renowned Artificial Intelligence expert, artist, & founder of the Algorithmic Justice League. All attendees will receive a signed copy of Unmasking AI along with the opportunity to attend a meet & greet.

Dr. Joy will be in conversation with Sinead Bovell, a futurist & the founder of WAYE. This event is a collaboration between All Tech Is Human, Algorithmic Justice League, Ford Foundation, Random House, & The Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at the School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. The talk will have live captioning provided & is being held at the Ford Foundation (Susan Berresford room), which has limited capacity & will fill up quickly. To learn more about Unmasking AI, please visit the official book website at www.unmasking.ai.

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Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, a groundbreaking MIT researcher, a model, & an artist. She is the author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines & advises world leaders on preventing AI harms. Her research on facial recognition technologies transformed the field of AI auditing. Her TED talk on algorithmic bias has been viewed over 1.6 million times.

Dr. Joy lends her expertise to congressional hearings & government agencies seeking to enact equitable & accountable AI policy. As the Poet of Code, she creates art to illuminate the impact of AI on society. Her writing has been featured in publications like TIME, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, & The Atlantic. Her work as a spokesmodel has been featured in Vogue, Allure, Harper's Bazaar, & People Magazine. She is the protagonist of the Emmy-nominated documentary Coded Bias which is available to over 100 million viewers.

Dr. Joy is the first Black researcher to grace the cover of Fast Company appearing in the 2020 Most Creative People issue & has been named to notable lists including Forbes 30 under 30, Bloomberg50, Time Next 100, & MIT Tech Review 35 under 25. She is the recipient of notable awards including the Rhodes Scholarship, the Fulbright Fellowship, the inaugural Morals & Machines Prize, & the Technological Innovation Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. She was selected as a 2022 Young Global Leader, one of the world's most promising leaders under the age of 40 as determined by The World Economic Forum. Fortune named her the "conscience of the AI revolution." Dr. Joy earned her Ph.D. from MIT & was awarded an honorary degree from Knox College. She enjoys drawing & drumming in her free time.

Sinead Bovell is a futurist & the founder of WAYE, an organization that prepares youth for a future with advanced technologies, with a focus on non-traditional & minority markets. Sinead is a regular tech commentator for CNN, talk shows, & morning shows; she's been dubbed the A.I. educator for the non-nerds by Vogue Magazine; & to date has educated over 200, 000 young entrepreneurs on the future of technology.

Sinead is an 8x United Nations speaker; she has given formal addresses to presidents, royalty & Fortune 500 leaders on topics ranging from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, & currently serves as a strategic advisor to the United Nations International Telecommunication Union on digital inclusion.

About the Organizations Involved

The Algorithmic Justice League uses art & research to raise awareness about the societal impact of AI. We are dedicated to preventing AI harms, increasing accountability in the use of AI systems, & creating a world where AI works well for all of us, not just the privileged few.

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to growing the Responsible Tech ecosystem so we can tackle wicked tech & society issues moving at the speed of tech. The organization's wide range of activities fall under multi-stakeholder convening & community-building, multidisciplinary education, & diversifying the traditional tech pipeline with more backgrounds, disciplines, & lived experiences. Join their Slack community of over 6k members across 82 countries, attend their regular summits & mixers, take part in their working groups or mentorship program, check out their job board & talent pool, & get involved with co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.

See all of our activities here, & stay in touch through our newsletter here.

IGP [Institute of Global Politics] is a hub for global policy innovation based at the School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. IGP draws on the world-class research of Columbia University & its location in New York City, convening top scholars & practitioners to forge solutions to today's global challenges.

The Ford Foundation is a global, grant-making philanthropy that works to disrupt inequality in all its forms. We believe in the inherent dignity of all people. But around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic, & social institutions that shape their lives.

In addressing this reality, we are guided by a vision of social justice-a world in which all individuals, communities, & peoples work toward the protection & full expression of their human rights; are active participants in the decisions that affect them; share equitably in the knowledge, wealth, & resources of society; & are free to achieve their full potential.

Across eight decades, our mission has been to reduce poverty & injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, & advance human achievement.

The Random House imprint was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf & Donald Klopfer. The mission, as Cerf put it, was simple, humble, & beautifully open-ended: to publish a few books, on the side, at random. Random House would go on to publish more than a few books on the side. We have been a cherished home to Maya Angelou, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, James Joyce, Pearl S. Buck, Salman Rushdie, Laura Hillenbrand, Edmund Morris, & many, many others. Today, Random House remains as dedicated as ever to a diverse & far-ranging list of fiction & nonfiction, one that is bound only by our commitment to the highest quality & the size of our authors' imaginations.

Do you have a question? Email Hello@AllTechIsHuman.org & we will get right back to you!