Kate Crawford, PhD
Research Professor of Communication and Science and Technology Studies at USC Annenberg
and
Malihe Alikhani, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract: Dr. Crawford will preview her new book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale, April 2021). It explores the historical origins, labor practices, infrastructures, and epistemological assumptions that underlie the contemporary field of artificial intelligence. She offers a political and a material perspective on how AI is “made,” from lithium mines in Nevada, to the exploited workers behind "automated" systems, to the regimes of classification in training data. This talk outlines how AI functions as a registry of power, which has been amplified during the pandemic at a time of deepening inequality around the world.
Sponsored by the Sara Fine Institute in the School of Computing and Information, and the Information Ecosystems Sawyer Seminar
Location and Address
Online