July 9: Seeing Tech Work: Conversations with the authors of Ghost Work

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass offers an important nuance to common perceptions about the ways in which the most celebrated AI-driven consumer applications and products today (think Uber, Amazon's Echo, or Facebook's News Feed) significantly depend on underserved on-demand workers from around the world. Gray and Suri draw on extensive interviews and data analytics to show that this large, invisible, and mostly unsupported workforce is essential to such things as geolocation, online payment systems, and content moderation. This human labor, they illustrate, is essential to fixing glitches and gaps, but remains obscured by claims from Silicon Valley and their boosters about full automation and the power of AI.
Title:
Seeing Tech Work: Conversations with the authors of Ghost Work, the winner of the 2019 McGannon Book Prize
Webinar Date+Time:
July 9, 2020
12:30 PM Eastern Time
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Speakers:

• Mary Gray - Author, Ghost Work; Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Lilly Irani - Associate Professor, Communication, Science Studies, Computer Science, Critical Gender Studies, Design Lab, UC Sandiego
• Kimani Paul-Emile - Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
• Sarah Roberts - Assistant Professor of Information Studies, UCLA
• Samuel K. Roberts - Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
• Siddharth Suri - Author, Ghost Work; Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Moderator: Olivier Sylvain - Professor, Fordham Law School; Director, McGannon Center.

By:
Fordham University MacGannon Center
Credit:
CLE Credit is approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York CLE Board for a maximum 2.0 non-transitional and transitional CLE Credits (1.5 professional practice and 0.5 Diversity, Inclusion & Elimination of Bias)
For other jurisdictions you may be able to claim credit by self-application.
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