Design @ Large: Safiya Noble
Your Search Algorithm is Political
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 4:00 -5:00 pm
Computer Science & Engineering Building, Room 1202
Artificial intelligence is a human rights issue in the 21st century. Data scientists and engineers work outside the context of the civil and human rights abuses that algorithms foster. STEM education provides little engagement with issues giving future developers tools or stake in these issues. In this talk, I provide evidence from my new book Algorithms of Oppression about Google Search, the way it misrepresents people and communities, and the harm that comes from these algorithmic practices – practices designed and implemented by humans. I underscore the role of search engines and other decision making systems of its ilk in contributing to oppression and racist marginalization. With artificial intelligence must come accountability.
Bio:
Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication. She is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Noble’s academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology design. Her monograph on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines is entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). Follow her on Twitter @safiyanoble.
A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
This event is co-sponsored by the Library, the Library’s Digital Humanities Group, the Library Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and the UC San Diego Design Lab.
This event is not located in the Library. Directions below are to the Computer Science & Engineering building.
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Directions from Interstate 5
- Exit at Genesee Avenue and head west.
- Turn left onto North Torrey Pines Rd.
- Turn left onto North Point Drive.
- The UCSD Visitor Information Center is located on North Point Drive, where you may obtain specific directions, visitor parking information and passes, and a campus map .
- North Point Drive bears right and becomes Hopkins Drive
- Turn left onto Voigt Drive/Lane.
- The Jacobs School of Engineering buildings are on the right-hand side of the road, across from parking lot P502. Nearby parking lots include: P503, P502, and P508.
- The Computer Science and Engineering building is also known as “EBU-3b”, near a blinking yellow pedestrian light on Voigt Drive/Lane.
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