historical iggerance, especially re any f'ing Homo-Sap Society (as with so many techno Majors.. who eschew, many as possible: those pesky Hmanities courses. Y'remember?)


City Arts and Lectures

Artificial Intelligence: The Trouble with Bias


Kate Crawford is a widely-published researcher, academic, and author who has spent the last decade studying the social impacts of large-scale data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She a Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York. In 2016, she co-chaired the Obama White House symposium on the social and economic implications of a AI.

She has published in academic journals such as Nature, New Media & Society, and Information, Communication & Society, and written for The New York Times, Harpers’ Magazine, The Washington Post. She has also advised policy makers in the European Union, the United Nations, the Federal Trade Commission, and the City of New York. She is the co-founder and co-director of the AI Now Institute at NYU, which is a leading university institute dedicated to researching the social implications of artificial intelligence and related technologies in an interdisciplinary context.



Some sterling examples explained well; sample: Red-lining via ZIP-codes re Amazon 1-day delivery; this in context that the areas--not advertised by the Bezos cabal--(of course) designated No Service: in many/most? cases: indeed actually follow this ancient Red-Line type map--(unbeknownst to machines; prolly not especially by young IT-worker-bees (either))

As usual, this/tonight's program is not listed when you try to navigate thisperpetually gauche Site.

But if you're in- or into- the Horrific Effects which sour-AI is capable of dropping upon Us All: here's yor ticket-to-Ride, bulldog that heifer ..and Teach it some Basic Social Manners.

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