The latest AI Experts news
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Stanley Kirk Burrell (MC Hammer)
Description: A popular urban music artist in the 90s, Stanley is an informed entrepreneur who very early understood the impact that silicon valley start-ups would have on the development of media and means of communication. He is currently working on an artificial intelligence project and maintains informed discussions on social networks, in particular with experts Yan Le Cun and Gary Marcus. AI expert Jane Wang even felt honored in 2020 when the infamous "MC Hammer" retweeted one of her research papers. -
Dr Chris Gilliard
Description: Dr Chris Gilliard is a writer, professor at Macomb Community College, and lecturer. His work focuses on digital privacy and the intersections of race, class and technology. He is an advocate for critical and equity-focused approaches to technology in education. He thinks that far too much is hidden behind algorithms which are largely biased and negatively influence populations. He believes that people should not be led to believe that these horrible biased systems are inevitable. -
Katharine Schwab
Description: Katharine is a tech journalist at Fast Company, she writes on a wide range of topics including startups, transportation, interfaces and AI. Katharine is a journalist fascinated by the ever-evolving link between culture, technology, design and art. -
Adji Bousso Dieng
Description: Adji Bousso Dieng is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. Her research connects probabilistic graphical models and deep learning to uncover meaningful structure from unlabeled data. She is currently an artificial intelligence researcher at Google Brain. She is also a professor at Princeton University, becoming the first black female faculty member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as the first black faculty member of the Department of Computer Science. Very present on social networks, she maintains technical discussions with Facebook AI expert, Yan Le Cun. -
Ruha Benjamin
Description: Sociological researcher and author, the main focus of Benjamin's work is the relationship between innovation and equity, with a particular focus on the intersection of race, justice, and technology. Benjamin is the author of numerous publications such as "People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier" (2013) and "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code" (2019). Recently, she used social media to find people working on the discriminatory results of the automated road traffic app. -
David Ha
Description: David is a research scientist at Google Brain. His research interests related to recurrent neural networks, creative artificial intelligence and evolutionary computing. He believes biologically inspired AIs are the best apps, and it's easier to make money with AI than progress. For David the environment is an "agent" to be considered as such. -
Rumman Chowdhury
Description: Rumman is interested in how data can be used to understand people's biases and how to write down the impact of technology on humanity. She wonders how we could prevent algorithmic audits from becoming another form of ethical washing. In 2021, she joined the twitter teams as an ethics manager. -
Lilly Irani
Description: Her research focuses on the cultural policy of high-tech work practices with an emphasis on how actors produce cultures of “innovation”. Lilly is trained in the analysis of interactional, organizational and cultural dynamics mediated by technology. She specializes in cultural labor policy involving technology in the context of a digitally mediated global economy, with a focus on the United States and India. She sent an alert to citizens who the city is buying back light poles from utilities, to let them know that smart surveillance and monetized data is coming to their streets unless they organize themselves. Most recently, she published the book In Search of Innovation: Building Citizen Entrepreneurs in Modern India. -
Safiya Noble
Description: Noble's research focuses on gender, technology and culture, and how they influence the design and use of the Internet. His work has appeared in academic publications and popular media, including Time and Bitch. In 2016, Noble edited "Emotions, Technology & Design and The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online". His latest book, "Algorithm of Oppression" describes the effects of search engines on the spread of racist ideas and theories. -
April Christina Curley
Description: Curley is best known on the networks as a diversity recruiter at Google who while working to bring more minority talent to the search giant she says she discriminated against her. employer, who was quick to fire her. Subsequently, she received a lot of support in the artificial intelligence community which probably triggered the ethical and deontological crisis that Google is currently experiencing, with the dismissals of experts Timnit Gebru and Margareth Mitchell.