Race in Academia

I, SOCIETY

AI AND INEQUALITY: NEW DECADE, MORE CHALLENGES

Mona Sloane, Ph.D. New York University [email protected] AI TECHNOLOGIES are becoming INTEGRAL to SOCIETY

TRADING in BEHAVIOURAL FUTURES

TOTALIZING NARRATIVE of AI AI as a master technology = often either utopia or dystopia AI = human hubris?

”In 2014, the eminent scientists Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek wrote: ‘The potential benefits are huge; everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history’.” Artificial General Intelligence?

CORRELATION  CAUSATION Race Race Gender Class INTERSECTIONAL INEQUALITY

ETHICS EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE ETHICS as POLICY APPROACH or as TECHNOLOGY APPROACH The ‘SOCIAL’ Problem ETHICS IS A SMOKESCREEN

WHOSE HEAD – OR “INTELLIGENCE” – ARE TRYING TO MODEL, ANYWAY? THE FOUNDERS OF THE ”BIG 5 TECH COMPANIES”: AMAZON, FACEBOOK, ALPHABET, APPLE, MICROSOFT BIG TECH, BIG BUSINESS

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-billions-2020/ 1956 DARTMOUTH CONFRENCE

THE DIVERSITY ARGUMENT IS IMPORTANT. BUT IT IS INSUFFICIENT. EXTRACTION as a social super structure

Prediction Dependency Extraction EXTRACTION Capitalism Racism White Supremacy Settler Colonialism Carcerality Heteronormativity … SCIENCE = ONTOLOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL ENGINE

Real world consequences of classification systems: racial classification in apartheid South Africa Ruha Benjamin, Alondra Nelson, Charlton McIlwain, Meredith Broussard, Andre Brock, Safiya Noble, Mutale Nkonde, Rediet Abebe, Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, Jessie Daniels, Sasha Costanza- Chock, Marie Hicks, Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau, Kadija Ferryman, Vincent Southerland – and more.

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