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Ethics & Tech Forum
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| With Anthony Cocciolo (Dean of School of Information, Pratt Institute), Karen Hao (Journalist). |
| Pratt Institute, 144 W 14th St, 2nd Fl |
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Oct 10 (Fri) , 2025 @ 04:30 PM
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How thoroughly will AI will alter society & what role we can all play in actively shaping AI so that it benefits are widespread?
This year, the Ethics & Technology Forum returns to the topic of AI, & we are very pleased to welcome Karen Hao, a Silicon Valley engineer-turned-award-winning-journalist, who recently wrote the New York Times bestseller Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (Penguin, 2025).
Her book is the culmination of many years of insider access to OpenAI as well as the AI industry more generally, & illustrates how the social, ideological & personal shape the development of new technology like AI. She shows us just how thoroughly AI will alter society, and, more importantly, what role we can all play in actively shaping AI so that it benefits are widespread. Excellent & deeply reported (The New York Times), Empire of AI is a page-turning thriller, & a heroic work by Shoshana Zuboff (The Age of Surveillance Capitalism). It is the jaw-dropping story of ambition & ego, hype & speculation, plunder & destruction, politics & labor, and, of course, money & power-a brilliant & deeply necessary look at the industry defining our era, & what the future holds.
About Karen Hao
Called one of the foremost tech journalists covering AI by Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Karen Hao writes for publications like The Atlantic & leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series, which trains journalists around the world on how to cover artificial intelligence.
Karen was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering American & Chinese tech companies, & a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review. Her work has been cited by Congress, featured in university curriculums, & remade into museum exhibits. She has won numerous accolades, including an American Humanist Media Award & a National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30. Karen also sits on the AI advisory board of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Prior to journalism, she was an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google, & she received a B.S. in mechanical engineering & minor in energy studies from MIT.
About the Ethics & Technology Forum
As New York evolves to become a major tech hub, & more students seek employment in technology companies, the School of Information must not only teach the knowledge & skills students need, but also imbue students with an ability to be critical, reflective, & thoughtful about their role & their employers' roles in the world. The annual School of Information Ethics & Technology Forum brings thought leaders to discuss the most pressing issues on this topic with the Pratt Institute community. Past speakers include Samuel Woolley, Meredith Broussard, Tim Wu, Sherry Turkle & Cliff Kuang.
Welcome By
Anthony Cocciolo, Dean of the School of Information at Pratt Institute.
Introduced By
Frances Bronet is the 12th President of Pratt Institute.
Talk followed by wine & hors d'oeuvre reception.
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