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.
Frederike is a tech policy analyst, researcher and advocate for justice in a world made of data.
Favour Borokini is a tech policy researcher interested in (emerging) technology-facilitated violence against women and the development and deployment of AI in Africa.
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.
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 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 is an anthropologist, service designer, and AI ethics researcher. She specialises in ethical design of automated decision-making systems.
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.
