Date/Time
Wednesday
23 Oct 2024
12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Location
210 South Hall

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

Lilly Irani
Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego

Where should decisions about ethical and responsible technology deployments get made? How do impacted communities, including criminalized communities and tech workers, make political claims over data technologies? In the last decade, researchers and activists have made the uneven impacts of AI and data into a much needed public conversation. This has spurred a range of experiments targeting corporate governance, ethical decision making among engineers, and regulations offering transparency and accountability to impacted communities.

In this talk, I draw on five years of participation in surveillance coalition organizing to argue that making data political requires supporting people in sensing data (perception), making their own knowledge about data (epistemology), and acting together (praxis). While technologists sometimes have a role to play, communities also bring irreplaceable knowledge of institutional violence and the construction of difference into these processes. I extend work we have elsewhere called “HCI tactics for politics from below” (Whitney et al. 2021).

This lecture will be held both online & in person. You are welcome to join us either in South Hall or via Zoom.

If you have questions about this event, please contact Kimmy Fox.