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Please join us for a PHH Noted Scholar Lecture by Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Beth Coleman, where they will be in conversation to discuss “The Politics of Freedom: Generative AI, Race as Technology and Postcolonial Computing”.
Speakers:
Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and has published widely in top-tier venues including the journals Mobilization, American Behavioral Scientist, and Big Data & Society, and top-tier computer science conferences such as CSCW, FAccT, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and the Scholars Council for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry.
Dr. Beth Coleman is Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (UTM) and the Faculty of Information, where she directs the City as Platform lab. Working in the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies, generative aesthetics, and Black poesis, her research focuses on smart technology & machine learning, urban data and civic engagement, and generative arts. Dr. Coleman is the inaugural director of the U of T’s Black Research Network. She is the author of Hello Avatar and multiple articles, including “Race as Technology.” She was a 2021 Google Artists and Machines Intelligence awardee and is a continuing Senior visiting researcher with Google Brain and Responsible AI.
Event offered by: Public Humanities Hub and Centre for Computational Social Science.
WHEN
Thursday, March 6, 12:30pm-2:00pm