Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Sociological Imagination

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Watch Ruha Benjamin's plenary session from the BSA Virtual Annual Conference 2024: Crisis, Continuity and Change which took place online from 3-5 April 2024.

Abstract: From automated decision systems in healthcare, policing, education and more, technologies have the potential to deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to harmful practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin takes us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight. When it comes to AI, Ruha shifts our focus from the dystopian and utopian narratives we are sold, to a sober reckoning with the way these tools are already a part of our lives. She argues that higher education is ground zero for reimagining the default settings of technology and prefiguring a world in which everyone can thrive.

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