Ethics & Politics of AI
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Charlton McIlwain: Smash the Mainframe — The Collision Between Civil Rights and Computing
How to Participate Watch on YouTube live during the event. Click here to sign up to receive a reminder before the event. Title Smash the Mainframe: The Collision Between Civil Rights and Computing A Conversation with Charlton McIlwain, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU and Christian Sandvig, Director of ESC. Speaker Bios Charlton is […]
Timnit Gebru: Computer Vision – Who is helped and who is harmed?
To Participate Click to JOIN VIA ZOOM Timnit Gebru Computer Scientist, former Co-Lead Ethical AI Research Team, Google Brain, Founder of Black in AI Abstract Computer vision has ceased to be a purely academic endeavor. From law enforcement, to border control, to employment, healthcare diagnostics, and assigning trust scores, computer vision systems are being rapidly integrated into all aspects of […]
Ethics & Politics of AI: Tarleton Gillespie
Content moderation can serve as a prism for examining what platforms are, and how they subtly torque public life. Our understanding of platforms too blithely accepted the terms in which they were sold and celebrated - open, impartial, connective, progressive, transformative - skewing our study of social behavior that happens on them, stunting our examination of their societal impact. Content moderation doesn’t fit this celebratory vision. As such, it has often been treated as peripheral to what they do—a custodial task, like sweeping up, occasional and invisible. What if moderation is in fact central to what platforms do? Moderation is...