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The Institute for Technoscience and Society Seminar Series is taking place on
November 6 at 10:30am EST featuring Professor Barabara Prainsack from the
University of Vienna, Austria.
Zoom Link:
https://yorku.zoom.us/j/95652748705?pwd=26XfO3IUbU5QTJyrpZuBPbDBVGlKMq.1
Presentation Abstract:
Making AI ethical: What is data solidarity, and why do we need it?
The challenge of developing effective policies and guidelines for the ethical
governance of AI is a much discussed issue. Studies show that ethical
guidelines for AI in particular have had little impact on practice so far. In
this talk, I will argue that a root cause of this problem is the blindness of
most policies and guidelines to the relational nature of data. Data are not
atomistic bits of information, but they have emerged from, and encapsulate,
relations between different kinds of entities. Digital data also disclose
information about wider ranges of entities than those that the data come from.
Digital practices such as predictive analytics have further deepened the
relationality of data. Today, the relationality of data is the de facto
business model underpinning entire industries, such as targeted advertising or
social media. Because the intrinsic relationality of data is not, however,
sufficiently recognised in the way data are conceptualised and governed,
corporations and authorities can pretend that the data they collect can be
separated from people, while profiting from their relationality at the same
time. I will end by outlining data solidarity as an approach that
acknowledges the relationality of data, and with it, the stakes that people -
as individuals and as members of collectives - have in phenomena in the world
that are datafied. In such a way, data solidarity is a precondition for the
ethical governance of AI.
please email daynaj@yorku.ca with any questions or
concerns
Dayna L. Jeffrey (She/Her)
PhD Candidate Science & Technology Studies
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
YORK UNIVERSITY
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