📲 Me, myself, and #AI: The future of responsible tech
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THE WHO, WHAT, AND WHY OF RESPONSIBLE AI
➡️ Even if we don't notice, artificial intelligence surrounds us. When we ask our smart speakers a question, it's there. When our streaming services recommend a new song, it's there. When our social media accounts populate a suggested influencer to follow, it's there. But as AI continues to play an inescapable role in every aspect of our lives, so do its inherent biases and so do important ethical questions that must be solved.
➡️ What is responsible AI? Responsible AI is the practice of designing, developing, and deploying artificial intelligence with good intentions that empower organizations and ethically impact society to create and scale AI with confidence. Outspoken's roster includes speakers who unpack the impact of AI, writing and speaking about the history of artificial technology and where it will take us in the future if we use it with good intentions.
Cori Lathan believes in a future of benevolent cyborgs. She is a technology entrepreneur who is a global thought leader in the relationship between technology and human performance. Her most recent book, Inventing the Future: Stories from a Techno-Optimist, explores how tech has and can continue to make the world a better place if we wield its power for good. In Cori’s talks, she shares:
How technology will enhance our brain power and health
How technology will enhance human performance
How we can discover our inner entrepreneur
FEATURED VIDEO: Neuroscientist Cori Lathan discusses innovations in the world of healthcare.
Ruha Benjamin is an award-winning author and leading scholar of the intersections of technology, inequality, and justice. Her research investigates how AI amplifies bias and unpacks the ethical questions that arise as we grow more and more dependent on artificial intelligence. Rob Reich of The Wall Street Journal said her book Race After Technology "is the best single overview of how and why new technologies perpetuate and exacerbate racism." A few of her talk topics include:
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for The New Jim Code
Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want
Beyond The Buzzwords: Innovation, Inequality, and Imagination in the 21st Century
FEATURED VIDEO: Sociologist Ruha Benmanin discusses Race After Technology.
Mary L. Gray is a senior researcher with Microsoft Research and 2020 Macarthur Fellow. Her work focuses on how our everyday use of technology transforms labor, identity, and human rights. Co-authored with scientist Siddharth Suri, her book Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass chronicles workers’ experiences of on-demand information technology jobs, such as content moderation, data-labeling to telehealth, and more, uncovering the often unseen and undercelebrated labor behind the rapid growth of AI. Two of her most popular topics include:
Ghost Work: The Invisible Human Labor Behind Tech
When Social Media Companies, Research Ethics, and Human Rights Collide
FEATURED VIDEO: Digital economies authority Mary L. Gray explains "ghost work" and the effects of invisible labor in the tech industry.
International human rights attorney and social innovator Flynn Coleman is the author of A Human Algorithm. With automation, computerization, and AI in place as the biggest disruptors in the history of our labor economies, Flynn's work points to the urgency of ethically designed AI and the future of work in our rapidly evolving, forever redefined, 21st century. Flynn has spoken and written extensively on issues of global citizenship, the future of work, purpose, democracy, and humanity, emerging technologies, political reconciliation, war crimes, genocide, human and civil rights, humanitarian issues, innovation and design for social impact, and improving access to justice and education. In her talks she shares:
How AI is redefining who we are
What is the future of work and purpose?
How do we thrive in a technological future?
FEATURED VIDEO: In this Candid Conversation, Flynn Coleman explains how technology has redefined who we are and why we must reimagine life in the era of AI.
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