The New Jim Code: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous […]
Women of Color and the Digital Labor of Repair
Women of color make our digital products. They assemble them in Asian factories and their cheap labor has made the tech industry’s innovation possible. This presentation focuses on their immaterial […]
Design and Technology Cloud Salon: Lena Chen and Maggie Oates
Lena Chen is a Chinese American writer and artist creating performances and socially engaged art in live and virtual contexts. Her practice has been informed by her experiences as one of […]
Tech Whistleblowing: Resources, Ramifications, & Resiliency
Tech sector whistleblowers have played an increasingly vital role in exposing racism and toxic workplace environments, algorithmic bias, and other platform harms. But the cost of coming forward with information […]
Reconciling Social Media & Democracy
Description: While various solutions to problems at the intersection of social media and democracy are under consideration, from regulation to antitrust action, some experts are enthusiastic about the opportunity to […]
The Ethics of Data Curation: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
A comprehensive analysis of large language models and their impact by Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru, et al. The discussion of this important essay will be led by co-facilitators Kath Bode (Data […]
The Ethics of Data Curation: Data Journalism
A talk and discussion with Meredith Broussard, Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology and author of the award-winning book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT, 2018). Critical AI’s […]
2021 Symposium on Intercultural Digital Ethics
Recent advances in the capability of digital information technologies—particularly due to advances in artificial intelligence—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use. However, this debate has often […]
Race + Data Science Lecture Series: Ali Alkhatib, University of San Francisco
The Race + Data Science Lecture Series aims to celebrate and advance research in the areas of race and data, engineering, and computational science. With this series of events, our goal is […]