How to make AI for the People
In this talk, AI policy analyst and researcher Mutale Nkonde will make the case that in order for social justice concerns to become embedded into the design, deployment and regulation of advanced technologies, we need to use popular culture to inform general audiences about the human and civil rights implications of the widespread deployment of these technologies.
Mutale Nkonde is the founding Executive Director of AI For the People, a non profit that seeks to use popular culture to educate Black audiences about the social justice implications of the deployment of AI systems in public life. Prior to this, she worked as an AI Policy advisor and was part of the team that introduced the Algorithmic and Deepfakes Accountability Acts and No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act to the House. She has been working at the intersection of AI, race and policy for the last six years, and is currently a 2019-2020 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society at Harvard University.