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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241024T171500
SUMMARY:Beyond Buzzwords: Reimagining Responsibility in Digital Societies
DESCRIPTION:Please register by 18 October 2024: https://forms.gle/iL3UrtMQx
 LKQEzAz9 [https://forms.gle/iL3UrtMQxLKQEzAz9] Please note the change of l
 ocation to HS 001\, KOL\\r\\nAbout this Talk:\\r\\nFrom automated decision
  systems in education\, healthcare\, policing and more\, technologies have
  the potential to deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even b
 enevolent when compared to harmful practices of a previous era. In this 
 talk\, Ruha Benjamin takes us into the world of biased bots\, altruistic
  algorithms\, and their many entanglements\, and provides conceptual too
 ls to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight. W
 hen it comes to AI\, Ruha shifts our focus from the dystopian and utopian 
 narratives we are sold\, to a sober reckoning with the way these tools are
  already a part of our lives. Whereas dystopias are the stuff of nightmare
 s\, and utopias the stuff of dreams… us-topias are what we create toget
 her when we are wide awake.\\r\\nAbout the Speaker:\\r\\nRuha Benjamin is
  Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Prince
 ton University\, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab\, a
 nd award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for 
 the New Jim Code (2019)\, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Wan
 t (2022)\, and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024). Ruha earned a BA in S
 ociology and Anthropology from Spelman College\, MA and PhD in Sociology
  from UC Berkeley\, and postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for
  Society & Genetics and Harvard’s Science\, Technology & Society Program
 . She is also the recipient fellowships and awards from the American Cou
 ncil of Learned Societies\, National Science Foundation\, Marguerite Case
 y Foundation Freedom Scholar Award\, and President’s Award for Distin
 guished Teaching at Princeton. For more info\, visit ruhabenjamin.com
X-ALT-DESC:<p><strong>Please register by 18 October 2024: <a href="https://
 forms.gle/iL3UrtMQxLKQEzAz9" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/iL3UrtMQxLK
 QEzAz9</a><br /> Please note the change of location to HS 001\, KOL</stron
 g></p>\n<h2 class="unibas-header-with-link unibas-subline">About this Talk
 :</h2>\n<p>From automated decision systems in education\, healthcare\, pol
 icing and more\, technologies have the potential to deepen discrimination 
 while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared&nbsp\;to&nbsp\;h
 armful practices of a previous era. In this talk\, Ruha Benjamin takes us 
 into&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;world of biased bots\, altruistic algorithms\, and&nb
 sp\;their many entanglements\, and provides conceptual&nbsp\;tools&nbsp\;t
 o&nbsp\;decode&nbsp\;tech promises with historical and sociological insigh
 t.&nbsp\;When it comes to AI\, Ruha shifts our focus from the dystopian an
 d utopian narratives we are sold\, to a sober reckoning with the way these
  tools are already a part of our lives. Whereas dystopias are the stuff of
  nightmares\, and utopias the stuff of dreams…&nbsp\;<em>us-</em>topias 
 are what we create together when we are wide awake.</p>\n<h2 class="unibas
 -header-with-link unibas-subline">About the Speaker:</h2>\n<p>Ruha&nbsp\;B
 enjamin is&nbsp\;Alexander Stewart 1886&nbsp\;Professor of African America
 n Studies at&nbsp\;Princeton University\, founding director of the&nbsp\;I
 da B. Wells Just Data&nbsp\;Lab\, and award-winning author of&nbsp\;<em>Ra
 ce After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the&nbsp\;New&nbsp\;Jim&nbsp\;
 Code</em>&nbsp\;(2019)\,&nbsp\;<em>Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We
  Want</em><em>&nbsp\;</em>(2022)\,<em>&nbsp\;</em>and&nbsp\;<em>Imaginatio
 n: A Manifesto</em>&nbsp\;(2024).&nbsp\;Ruha earned a BA in Sociology&nbsp
 \;and&nbsp\;Anthropology from Spelman College\, MA and PhD in Sociology fr
 om UC Berkeley\, and postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for So
 ciety &amp\; Genetics and Harvard’s Science\, Technology &amp\; Society 
 Program. She is&nbsp\;also the recipient fellowships and awards from&nbsp\
 ;the American Council of Learned Societies\,&nbsp\;National Science Founda
 tion\, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award\, and&nbsp\;Presi
 dent’s&nbsp\;Award&nbsp\;for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.&nbsp\;
 For more info\, visit&nbsp\;ruhabenjamin.com</p>\n\n
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