She’s a co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. She has also authored Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age.

She’s the author of this tremendous book that you’ll hear about in a minute.

Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Albany, SUNY. We’ll keep an eye on that for folks that are not within the room. So please do ask questions, and you can do that in person here or over on Twitter. There’s a lot of rich material here and lots of many salient questions that we’ll be discussing. Virginia will speak for about twenty-five to thirty minutes but we really want this to be a discussion. Virginia has graciously offered to also sign copies of the book after the talk so please do make a purchase and stick around afterwards so that she will sign them.Īnd third please be sure to ask questions at the end of this talk. Second is that if you are interested in this book and actually reading it, we have them for sale via the Harvard Coop over there for $ 25. One is that if you are new to the Berkman Klein Luncheon Series, these events are webcast for posterity, and also because this room was oversubscribed there’s lots of folks watching on the webcast, so please just be aware of that. It’s got a number of areas that it’s doing research in with the MIT Media Lab, and so if you’re interested in that effort and that series of conversations I encourage you to check out the Berkman Klein web site.Īnd let me just take a moment to mention a couple of different housekeeping things. In particular over the past two years we’ve hosted a series of conversations around the public interest and emerging technologies under our Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative.

And it has so much relevance to work that’s going on here at the Berkman Klein Center. We are thrilled to have Virginia Eubanks, who is the author of this phenomenal book Automating Inequality, here at the Berkman Klein Center to talk about some of the most salient issues of the day related to emerging technologies, AI and ethics, and more generally just how many of these issues are playing out across society, and how how high-tech tools are affecting and impacting the poor.

I’m the Assistant Research Director here at the Berkman Klein Center. We are thrilled to- I should mention, I’m Amar Asher. So excited to have such an oversubscribed room for such an important topic and important book. Amar Asher: So, welcome everybody to the Berkman Klein Tuesday Luncheon Series.

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