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SUMMARY:WAIE Monthly AI Expert Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:For Black History Month\, we have invited Digital Rights Specialist\, Emsie Erastus to discuss how historically marginalized communities are more likely to be left out of the Responsible AI discourse\, how this exclusion is reflected in algorithmic systems outcomes\, and best practices for nation states to undertake ethical deployments of AI.
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SUMMARY:Monthly AI Ethics Reading Circles | AI & Race
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TITLE: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism \nAUTHOR: Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble \nDESCRIPTION: (Source: Bookshop.org)  \n  \n \nRun a Google search for “Black girls”–what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But\, if you type in “white girls\,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why Black women are so sassy” or “why Black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of Black womanhood in modern society. \nIn Algorithms of Oppression\, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas\, identities\, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites\, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines\, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color\, specifically women of color. \nThrough an analysis of textual and media searches as well as extensive research on paid online advertising\, Noble exposes a culture of racism and sexism in the way discoverability is created online. As search engines and their related companies grow in importance–operating as a source for email\, a major vehicle for primary and secondary school learning\, and beyond–understanding and reversing these disquieting trends and discriminatory practices is of utmost importance. \n \nAUTHOR BIO \n\n\nPhoto credit: Stella Kallnina \nDr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies\, African American Studies\, and Information Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as a Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative\, leading work in critical data studies for the campus. Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press)\, which has been widely reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021\, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination. \nRELATED LINKS: \n\nLinkedIn\nAuthor website \nBuy the book “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press)” \nImagining a Future Free from Algorithms of Oppression \nTime 100 Talks \nTEDx talk\n\nUSC Annenberg talks  Data X
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