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Stories of Algorithmic Justice

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We often cling to the idea that artificially intelligent systems are neutral arbiters, despite knowing that these systems can only be as good as the parameters and data sets that they are trained with—and that those inputs are saturated with pre-existing biases, blind spots, and historical baggage. Which is why AI has the potential to quietly entrench inequality, behind a veneer of computational objectivity.

But what changes when instead of hoping or striving for a neutral AI that doesn’t perpetuate our biases, we imagine AI that counters them in pursuit of social justice? Future Tense Fiction, with support from the Hewlett Foundation and Google, commissioned a series of three speculative stories that explore that very question, looking at how AI might transform understandings of personhood, governance, and the redress of past racial injustice. Join Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and Imagination to hear about these explorations.

Speakers

Holli Mintzer, @hollimichele                                                                                    Author of “Legal Salvage

Tochi Onyebuchi, @TochiTrueStory                                                                Author of “How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, @yudhanjaya                                                                      Author of “The State Machine”

Moderators

Ed Finn, @zonal                                                                                                      Director, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University

Follow the conversation online using #AlgorithmicJustice and by following @FutureTenseNow. Co-hosted with Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination.

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