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Kerry McInerney and Eleanor Drage | The Good Robot: Why AI Needs Feminism

Status
Past
Date
Thursday, April 11, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM PST/PDT
Location
Hybrid
Topics
Ethics, Equity, Inclusion

What is good technology? Is it even possible? And how can feminism help us work toward it?

Join Kerry McInerney and Eleanor Drage, researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, as they discuss these crucial questions and their new book, The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism. McInerney and Drage are co-hosts of “The Good Robot” podcast and co-editors of Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines.

Speakers
Kerry McInerney
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Eleanor Drage
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Moderator
Michele Elam headshot
Michele Elam
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (portfolio: AI and Higher Education) | William Robertson Coe Professor in the Humanities | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Dept of English & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept of African & African-American Studies (courtesy), Stanford University
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  • Kerry McInerney
    Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
  • Eleanor Drage
    Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
  • Michele Elam
    Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (portfolio: AI and Higher Education) | William Robertson Coe Professor in the Humanities | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Dept of English & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept of African & African-American Studies (courtesy), Stanford University
    Michele Elam headshot

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