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Fake AI, pseudoscience, snake oil and hype

With Frederike Kaltheuner, Favour Borokini, Aidan Peppin, Gemma Milne, Tulsi Parida, Aparna Ashok, and Christine Jakobson
Recorded:
24 Feb 2022
Speakers:
With Frederike Kaltheuner, Favour Borokini, Aidan Peppin, Gemma Milne, Tulsi Parida, Aparna Ashok, and Christine Jakobson
Event Series:
Events 2021/2022

From predicting criminality to sexual orientation, fake and deeply flawed Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rampant. Amidst this feverishly hyped atmosphere, this book interrogates the rise and fall of AI hype, pseudoscience and snake oil. Bringing together different perspectives and voices from across disciplines and countries, it draws connections between injustices inflicted by inappropriate AI. Each chapter unpacks lazy and harmful assumptions made by developers when designing AI tools and systems, and examines the existential underpinnings of the technology itself to ask: why are there so many pointless, and even dangerously flawed, AI systems? In this event, you will meet some of the authors of this monograph.

Speakers

Favour Borokini

Favour Borokini

Favour Borokini is a tech policy researcher interested in (emerging) technology-facilitated violence against women and the development and deployment of AI in Africa.

Aidan Peppin

Aidan Peppin

Senior Researcher, Ada Lovelace Institute

Aidan Peppin is a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute. He researches the relationship between society and technology, and brings public voices to ethical issues of data and AI.

Gemma Milne

Gemma Milne

University College London

Gemma Milne is a Scottish science and technology writer and PhD researcher in Science & Technology Studies at University College London. Her debut book is Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future

Tulsi Parida

Tulsi Parida

Tulsi Parida is a socio-technologist currently working on AI and data policy in fintech. Her previous work has been in edtech, with a focus on responsible and inclusive learning solutions.

Aparna Ashok

Aparna Ashok

Aparna Ashok is an anthropologist, service designer, and AI ethics researcher. She specialises in ethical design of automated decision-making systems.

Christine Jakobson

Christine Jakobson

Doctoral Candidate , University of Cambridge

Christine Jakobson is a tech ethics researcher and consultant, finding wats to make the world a better place through philosophy. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge.