Keynote Conversation on AI Ethics with Meredith Whittaker
Join the Center for Cognitive Science the Center for Cultural Analysis for an exciting keynote conversation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ethics with Meredith Whittaker.
Whittaker is the co-founder and co-director of the AI Now Institute, Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and Founder of Google’s Open Research Group. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, co-founding a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. Her talk will examine the limits of AI technologies, and their insistence on enforcing normative categories that necessarily exclude “that which doesn’t fit.” It then goes on to review the political economy driving the AI industry, AI’s recent history and capacity for social control, and how movements for justice must go beyond corporate-sponsored “ethics” and a fascination with technical mechanisms and adopt more militant tactics that contend with concentrated power, and the capacity of AI to exacerbate inequality and facilitate minority rule.
The event will conclude with a live question and answer session.