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How does AI & Machine Learning change the way we tell stories about race, disability & the planet? Who decides what & who counts?
About this Event
Can an algorithm determine whether a child should be removed from their family? How can we move the conversation beyond diversity when talking about the social implications of automated decision making? Who gets to participate in the conversation & what counts when we measure life?
Begin with a spoken word performance by Earl Majette & theatrical skit by actress/playwright Fariso Jordan. Their shared experience teaching their craft to teens incarcerated in NYC juvenile detention centers will inform their pieces.
Then join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion moderated by NYU Information Law Fellow Julia Powles featuring Columbia University Professor Peter Bearman, Computer Science Post-Doctoral Student at Cornell Ithaca & Co-Founder of Black In AI, Rediet Abebe & Viriginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High Tech Tools Profile, Police & Punish the Poor.
Snacks will be served in the cafe before we begin, following the panel, we invite you to return to the cafe to mingle over pizza, sandwiches & other refreshments.
WordToRI seeks to break the barriers between academia & the community - we strongly encourage people from outside the field to attend & bring your questions about data, artificial intelligence & machine learning!
Julia Powles is an NYU Information Law Institute Fellow. Her current projects focus on privacy, intellectual property, & antitrust in relation to data-driven technologies. She is widely published in academic & popular outlets, with bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, New Yorker, Slate, & Wired, among others. Prior to coming to New York, Powles was a Postdoctoral Fellow cross-appointed between the Faculty of Law & Department of Computer Science & Technology at the University of Cambridge, a Contributing Editor & Policy Fellow at the Guardian, & Speechwriter for the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Peter Bearman is the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theories & Empirics INCITE & the Cole Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. At INCITE, he serves as the co-founding director of the Oral History Master of Arts program & co-directs Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellows program. A specialist in network analysis, he co-designed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Most recently, he is collaborating on Reclaiming Lost Data on American Racial Inequality, 1865-1940.
Rediet Abebe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. Her research focuses on algorithms, AI, & applications to social good. She is a co-founder & co-organizer of Black in AI, a group for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations & discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of artificial intelligence. She is also a co-founder & co-organizer of Mechanism Design for Social Good, an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research group working on applications of algorithms & AI to social good.
Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, & Punish the Poor; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age; & co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Her writing about technology & social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper's & Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology & economic justice movements. Today, she is a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project & a Fellow at New America. She lives in Troy, NY.
Earl Majette is an activist, poet & educator. He hosts a weekly Open Mic to showcase emerging talent & currently is a full time mentor at 100 Suits for 100 Men serving incarcerated youth at Horizons Juvenile Facility. He has taught underserved youth teaching poetry, basketball & financial literacy in after school programs, family shelters & juvenile detention centers in partnership with Bronx Council on the Arts, Voices UnBroken, Children's Aide Society & Bronx Works.
Fariso Jordan is an actress & playwright dedicated to telling stories that matter. Her most prominent work, Georgia, is an Off-Broadway play exploring opposing perspectives on sexual consent, including the perspective of a young man. The show has toured throughout the US & abroad to engage young audiences in relevant conversations on love, sex & gender. Fariso is the co-founder of Birthright, a youth theatre program in the spirit of African & African American ancestry.
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