Event Lectures and Symposia Investigating the Algorithm: Our Uneasy Ties to Tech with Joy Buolamwini and Kyle Chayka
Date and Location
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When: Saturday, August 24, 2024
12:10 pm - 1:10 pm EDT
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Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - Room 202 (Level 2, South Building)
801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
- Stage: Room 202 Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults, Panels Genres: Black and African American, Debut, Nonfiction, Science and Technology, Social Justice
Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival
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Algorithms aren’t just the code that suggests your next impulse buy. Joy Buolamwini (“Unmasking AI”) and Kyle Chayka (“Filterworld”) unearth a more troubling world where computer code flattens our culture into fragmented worlds where discrimination is rampant, anxiety predominates and profit is king. But can the algorithm contribute to a better world? Moderated by Regina G. Barber.