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SUMMARY:Timnit Gebru on artificial intelligence\, in conversation with Casey Fiesler
DESCRIPTION:Timnit Gebru is founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace\, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team. Timnit also co-founded Black in AI\, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence\, inclusion\, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI\, and is on the board of AddisCoder\, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian and Jamaican highschool students. She has received a number of accolades including being named one of Nature’s Ten people who helped shape science and one of TIME 100’s most influential people. She is currently writing Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist\, a memoir + manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities instead of one that is used for surveillance\, warfare\, and the centralization of power by Silicon Valley. \n\n\n\nCasey Fiesler is an associate professor and the William R. Payden Endowed Professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science\, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Armed with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School\, she primarily researches technology ethics and law\, human-computer-interaction\, and online communities (occasionally all at the same time).
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/timnit-gebru-on-artificial-intelligence-in-conversation-with-casey-fiesler/
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SUMMARY:Ben Ehrenreich on our ecological vulnerabilities\, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel
DESCRIPTION:Ben Ehrenreich is a journalist and novelist. He is the author of the novels The Suitors (Counterpoint 2006) and Ether (City Lights Books 2011)\, and of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine (Penguin 2016). His new book His journalism\, essays\, and criticism have since appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Nation\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Believer\, and the London Review of Books. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Haiti\, Cambodia\, El Salvador\, Mexico\, and all over the United States. His new book is forthcoming with Seven Stories Press. \n\n\n\nBenjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust\, and a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books\, New Left Review\, Granta etc.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/ben-ehrenreich-in-conversation-with-benjamin-kunkel-on-our-ecological-vulnerabilities/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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