Past talk · AI/ML Seminar Series
Towards an Atlas of AI: A Conversation with Kate Crawford
Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, New York
- Date & time
- Monday, April 19, 2021 · 4:00 PM
- Location
- Online (live stream)
Abstract
Where do the motivating ideas behind Artificial Intelligence come from and what do they imply? What claims to universality or particularity are made by AI systems? How do the movements of ideas, data, and materials shape the present and likely futures of AI development? A conversation with social scientist and AI scholar Kate Crawford (with Paul Dourish and Geof Bowker of the Department of Informatics, UC Irvine) about the intellectual history and geopolitical contexts of contemporary AI research and practice. (Sponsored by the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology, CREATE.)
About the speaker
Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Over her 20-year career, her work has focused on large-scale data systems, machine learning, and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR-NYC, and co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU.