BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news135@rds.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241028T145240 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241024T171500 SUMMARY:Beyond Buzzwords: Reimagining Responsibility in Digital Societies DESCRIPTION:Please note\, due to high-demand the event has been relocated t o the Kollegienhaus.\\r\\nAbout this Talk:\\r\\nFrom automated decision sy stems in education\, healthcare\, policing and more\, technologies have th e potential to deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even bene volent when compared to harmful practices of a previous era. In this tal k\, Ruha Benjamin takes us into the world of biased bots\, altruistic al gorithms\, and their many entanglements\, and provides conceptual tools  to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight. Whe n it comes to AI\, Ruha shifts our focus from the dystopian and utopian na rratives we are sold\, to a sober reckoning with the way these tools are a lready a part of our lives. Whereas dystopias are the stuff of nightmares\ , and utopias the stuff of dreams… us-topias are what we create togethe r when we are wide awake.\\r\\nAbout the Speaker:\\r\\n Ruha Benjamin is  Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Prince ton University\, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab\, a nd award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019)\, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2 022)\, and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024). Ruha earned a BA in Sociolog y and Anthropology from Spelman College\, MA and PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley\, and postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics and Harvard’s Science\, Technology & Society Program.  She is also the recipient of fellowships and awards from the American Counci l of Learned Societies\, National Science Foundation\, Marguerite Casey Fo undation Freedom Scholar Award\, and President’s Award for Distinguish ed Teaching at Princeton. In 2024\, Ruha was awarded a MacArthur Foundatio n “Genius” Fellowship. For more info\, visit ruhabenjamin.com [https: //www.ruhabenjamin.com/] X-ALT-DESC:

Please note\, due to high-demand the event has been r elocated to the Kollegienhaus.

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About this Talk:

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From automated decision sy stems in education\, healthcare\, policing and more\, technologies have th e potential to deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even bene volent when compared \;to \;harmful practices of a previous era. I n this talk\, Ruha Benjamin takes us into \;the \;world of biased bots\, altruistic algorithms\, and \;their many entanglements\, and pr ovides conceptual \;tools \;to \;decode \;tech promises wi th historical and sociological insight. \;When it comes to AI\, Ruha s hifts 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 live s. Whereas dystopias are the stuff of nightmares\, and utopias the stuff o f dreams… \;us-topias are what we create together when we a re wide awake.

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Abo ut the Speaker:

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Ruha \;Benjamin is \;Alexander Ste wart 1886 \;Professor of African American Studies at \;Princeton U niversity\, founding director of the \;Ida B. Wells Just Data \;La b\, and award-winning author of \;Race After Technology: Abolition ist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019)\, Viral Justice: How We Gro w the World We Want \;(2022)\, \;and \;Imagination: A Manifesto (2024). Ruha earned a BA in Sociology and Anthropology fro m Spelman College\, MA and PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley\, and postdoc toral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society &\; Genetics and Ha rvard’s Science\, Technology &\; Society Program. \; \;She is  \;also the recipient of fellowships and awards from \;the America n Council of Learned Societies\, National Science Foundation\, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award\, and President’s \;Award&nbs p\;for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. In 2024\, Ruha was awarded a M acArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. For more info\, visit \;< a href="https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/" title="https://www.ruhabenjamin.com /" target="_blank">ruhabenjamin.com

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