Mutale Nkonde talk at the NYU Tandon ECE Seminar Series on Modern AI: TOMORROW

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Dear All,

Mutale Nkonde, founding director of AI for the People, will be with us on the 13th of April, TOMORROW! Her talk is scheduled at 10.15 am and you can use the following zoom to connect:


NYU Tandon is looking forward to seeing you all!!!

Regards,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

NYU Tandon - Born Anywhere, Made in Brooklyn

Elections, Online Chatter and Content Moderation

Time and Location
April 13, 2021
10:15 am
Zoom

Contact: ece-anno...@nyu.edu

Zoom Link

Mutale Nkonde
AI for the People
 

Mutale Nkonde is the founding director of AI for the People, a nonprofit communications firm that uses journalism, arts and culture to advance racial justice in tech. During the 2020 presidential election her team identified a disinformation network targeting Black voters in the Philadelphia news ecosystem, and published the findings in the Harvard Kennedy School's Misinformation Review, read it here. In 2021 AI for the People launched their biometric justice vertical by producing a film supporting a ban of facial recognition in New York State, in partnership with Amnesty International, watch it here. Nkonde writes widely on racial impacts of advanced technical systems, is a widely sought after media commentator and seeks to create a safe space for Black technologists who feel marginalized within the wider tech sector.

Prior to this she lead a team that introduced the Algorithm and Deepfakes Accountability Acts and the No Biometric Barriers Act to the US House of Representatives in 2019 and started her career as a broadcast journalist before transitioning into the world of tech. She currently sits on the TikTok Content Moderation Advisory Board, advises the Center of Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University and is a key constituent for the UN 3C Table on AI.

Elections, Online Chatter and Content Moderation

The talk centers on the work done by AI for the People on racially targeted disinformation on Twitter during the 2020 Election and the challenges we faced communicating this to trust and safety teams because of their lack of how to read online culture through speech. The talk will introduce listeners to how the environment changed from 2016 to 2020, our findings detailed here and end with recommendations on how to increase the racial literacy of computer scientists working in industry settings.


This event is free and open to the public.

The Seminar Series in Modern Artificial Intelligence is held at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Organized by Professor Anna Choromanska, the series aims to bring together faculty and students to discuss the most important research trends in the world of AI. The speakers include world-renowned experts whose research is making an immense impact on the development of new machine learning techniques and technologies and helping to build a better, smarter, more-connected world.
 

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