{"id":7802,"date":"2019-01-30T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2019-01-30T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:45:11","slug":"ai-cds-lecture-spring19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/30\/ai-cds-lecture-spring19\/","title":{"rendered":"“What If AI Tools Punish the Poor?”; Spring Critical Data Studies Distinguished Lecture Set for Feb. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Virginia Eubanks, associate professor of political science, University of Albany, the State University of New York (SUNY)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In an increasingly automated world, what if artificial intelligence (AI) tools are harmful to poor people? They just might be.<\/p>\n

Virginia Eubanks, associate professor of political science at the University of Albany, SUNY, will address this question in her lecture \u201cWhat IF AI tools Punish the Poor?\u201d She argues that government data and its abuses have worsened inequality and created a digital poorhouse by imposing a new regime of surveillance, profiling, punishment, containment and exclusion in our society.<\/p>\n

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is 4:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in Stewart Center\u2019s Fowler Hall. It will be followed by a Q&A session.<\/p>\n

For 20 years, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. She was a founding member of Our Data Bodies Project and was a fellow at New America.<\/p>\n

The event is a part of Purdue\u2019s Ideas Festival, the centerpiece of Purdue\u2019s Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial Campaign, which is a series of events that connect world-renowned speakers and Purdue expertise in a conversation on the most critical problems facing the world. One of the Ideas Festival\u2019s themes is artificial intelligence, algorithms and automation.<\/p>\n

Eubanks is the author of \u201cAutomating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor\u201d and \u201cDigital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age.\u201d She also co-edited with Alethia Jones \u201cAin\u2019t Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith.\u201d Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, Harper\u2019s and Wired.<\/p>\n

This Spring Critical Data Studies Distinguished Lecture is sponsored by the Honors College. Eubanks\u2019 visit also is co-sponsored by the AI Committee\/Ideas Festival, American Studies Program, Black Cultural Center, Brian Lamb School of Communication, Center for Science of Information \u2013 NSF Science & Technology Center, Civic Engagement and Leadership Development, Critical Data Studies, The Data Mine, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Diversity Resource Office, Honors College, Purdue University Libraries \u2013 Seminar Committee, Purdue Graduate Student Government, and Purdue University Fort Wayne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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