This session is facilitated by Diana Negron, Emma Lavin, Zachary Curinga
About this session
This session offers a short presentation by Rutgers University, the City of Newark, and Montclair State University’s research/thoughts/and ideas around AI as a tool of and for social justice. There will be a workshop where individuals will break into smaller groups to discuss and propose how AI can be used as a tool for social justice to empower our democratic institutions. Overall, participants will learn core concepts of and their role in building social justice and equity through the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Goals of this session
Our democratic institutions can be undermined by Artificial Intelligence (AI), but, while we still have control over our technologies, it is our duty to ensure that the process does not create even more inequitable spaces.
Therefore, we must build responsibly using AI as a structure to support equity. In the Internet Health Report for 2019, Mozilla reported that AI is amplifying injustice, but what if we used it to amplify social justice and empower our democratic institutions? By creating mechanisms for a healthy internet and by enabling people to change technologies, policies, and societies, we can work to use AI as a force of positive change. The goal of this session is to empower participants to think of themselves as agents of change in the space of technology and the intersectionality between social justice and AI.