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February 20, 2020, 5-7:30pm
Atkinson Hall, U.C. San Diego

Agenda (*subject to change):
5-5:50pm: Keynote: Dr. Kate Crawford, Co-Founder and Co-Director of AI Now Institute at New York University

5:50-6:30pm: Community Panel
Graciela Zamudio
Pillars of the Community / TRUST Coalition
Ride Share Drivers United

6:30-6:45pm: Moderated Q&A

6:45-7:30 Reception

Smart cities, smart borders, and emerging data-enabled platforms generate new forms of control: surveillance, targeting, and pattern recognition. The rapid integration and recombination of these technologies transform everyday practices related to policing, transportation, and labor, rapidly outpacing the public’s understanding of their social and ethical implications.

How do AI and other emergent technologies reshape possibilities for life in the San Diego and Tijuana region? How do communities most affected by new technologies of militarism, police, and border enforcement invent counter-technologies that offer alternative ways of imagining geography, community, safety, and innovation?

The keynote will be delivered by Kate Crawford, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the AI Now Institute at New York University, who has spent the last decade studying the social implications of data systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The keynote will be followed by a panel discussion and moderated Q&A with Graciela Zamudio of Alma Migrante, Pillars of the Community, and San Diego Surveillance Coalition, who will grapple with how these technologies impact the lives of communities.

This AI-focused event launches our cross-border conference, “Counter-technologies at the Edgelands” (February 28 and 29, 2020) to be held in San Diego and Tijuana.

Co-sponsored by UCSD History, Design Lab, Communication, Science Studies, Arts and Humanities, International Institute, Division of Social Sciences, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Institute for Practical Ethics, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute