Are Robots Racist? Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare

November 15, 2022 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm

Ruha Benjamin, PhD
Professor of African American Studies
Princeton University

With Meghna Chakrabarti, Host and editor of WBUR’s On Point

Abstract: As algorithms supplement human decision-making across a variety of sectors, questions of ethics and equity have come quickly to the forefront. How might automated systems create or entrench unethical social practices and dynamics? How are related disparities worsening health gaps?

The Greenwall Foundation’s William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture co-sponsored by the NYU School of Global Public Health