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Unmasking AI

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Date and time
Monday, November 18, 2024
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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No registration is required
Location
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
In-person
Free

We partner with Cambridge Forum and Harvard Book Store to record this free event, as part of CF’s ongoing series AI: Servant or Master?

Scientist, engineer and artist, Dr. Joy Buolamwini discusses her book UNMASKING AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines. In it, she uncovers what she calls “the coded gaze”, evidence of encoded racial and gender bias, discrimination and exclusion in tech products. On the basis of her research, Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League. (AJL) to show how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity “excoded” and vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Encouraging everyone to join this fight, Buolamwini writes, “The rising frontier for civil rights will require algorithmic justice. AI should be for the people and by the people, not just the privileged few.”

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Joy Buolamwini, born in Canada to Ghanaian parents, now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After tinkering with robotics in high school she developed mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow. Buolamwini then followed her lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art to MIT in 2015, where she did groundbreaking research as a graduate student. In addition to being a renowned speaker, she is founder of the A.J.L. Her writing has been featured in TIME, The NYT, Harvard Business Review, and The Atlantic.
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Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Associate Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of 'The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure', and 'The Search for Mastery', and the forthcoming book 'Vision & Justice'.
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