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Announcing new event series “Co-Opting AI: Public Conversations About Design, Inequality, and Technology”

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NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge is pleased to list all events that have been hosted by Mona Sloane as part of the “Co-Opting AI: Public Conversations About Design, Inequality, and Technology” series since its launch in April 2019.

Across the globe, new technologies commonly subsumed under ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) increasingly affect fundamental aspects of social life. From healthcare to transport, education, governance and work, to criminal justice and the law – AI seems to be everywhere.

At the same time, a new significance of design is emerging, gaining traction as powerful modus operandi for how we organize society. ‘Has design now displaced development as the dominant term for deliberative, transformational change?’ anthropologist Lucy Suchman pointedly asks.

But the benefits of AI design are unevenly distributed: more and more evidence is building that new algorithmic designs and AI technologies can play a central role in exacerbating social inequality across a range of domains. While many fear the arrival of the robots, the real concern is that we may miss the boat: AI prompts us to re-evaluate ‘big’ questions relating to power, democracy and inequality – and to what it means to be human. We must keep asking these questions. We must co-opt the AI discourse to address urgent social problems. If we fail to do so, we may fail humanity.

The Co-Opting AI series create a public dialogue on the big questions AI conjures up beyond the technology itself. It puts the most forward-thinking scholars across technology, design and inequality into conversation with the public and covers a wide spectrum of concerns. The events are free and open to all.

The Co-Opting AI series is convened by IPK Fellow Mona Sloane.

Image credit: Philipp N. Hertel 

Events

Book Launch

Book Talk | Ray Suarez | We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century

02/03 Monday | 5:30pm
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, February 3rd at 5:30 PM for a book talk with historian and author Ray Suarez. He will discuss his new book We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century with Dalton Conley and Maria E. Montoya.  Ray Suarez is a journalist and veteran broadcaster with decades...
Book Launch

Book Talk | Julian Zelizer | In Defense of Partisanship

02/05 Wednesday | 5:30pm
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, February 5th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with historian Julian Zelizer. He will discuss his new book In Defense of Partisanship with Jonathan Alter. This event is sponsored by IPK and the NYU John Brademas Center. In Defense of Partisanship imagines what partisanship might look...
Book Launch

Book Talk | Danya Glabau & Laura Forlano | Cyborg

02/13 Thursday | 5:30pm
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Thursday, February 13 (5:30-7:00 PM) for a book talk with Danya Glabau and Laura Forlano. They will discuss their book Cyborg with Margaret Jack and David Parisi. Danya Glabau is a medical anthropologist and STS scholar researching health activism, the medical economy, and how human bodies become valuable...

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