Upcoming Events

You can watch the event here. Rebuild by Design and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join for a discussion about New York City’s flood protection plan. Mayor Bill de Blasio proposes extending the waterfront from the Seaport to Battery Park up to 500 feet into the East River at a cost of up to (more…)

You can watch the event here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a discussion of the Green New Deal, with Daniel Aldana Cohen, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and Pavlina R. Tcherneva. The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution that lays out a plan for tackling climate change. Introduced by Democratic Representatives (more…)

The Co-Opting AI series and Race and Public Space Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invite you to join for a discussion of Racial Categories in Machine Learning, with Sebastian Benthall and Bruce D. Haynes. Controversies around race and machine learning have sparked debate among computer scientists over how to design machine learning (more…)

The OIKOS working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion of Valor y Cambio with Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarah Muir. Valor y Cambio (#valorycambio) is a story-telling, community-building, and solidarity economy project started by the artists Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarabel Santos Negrón. The project emerges in response to the island’s more than decade-old debt crisis and the (more…)

You can watch the event here. NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a discussion on justice in our series on “Co-Opting AI.” Featuring Sasha Costanza-Chock, Virginia Eubanks, Amanda Levendowski, Alondra Nelson, and Mona Sloane in conversation, this event examines the intersection of AI and (in)justice. What are the social implications of deploying AI across so many domains of society? Who benefits, who (more…)