NJIT Hosts Conference Asking: 'How Can Artificial Intelligence Be a Force for Good?'
How can we prevent artificial intelligence from exacerbating systemic discrimination and leverage it as a force for good to promote social and environmental justice?
Policy experts from organizations such as the Innocence Project, prominent data scientists and others will discuss the profound, but often silent role of AI in our lives at “Women Designing the Future: Artificial Intelligence/Real Human Lives,” an upcoming conference hosted by the Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Come interact with innovative scientists and social activists who are tracking the rise and impact of AI in spheres ranging from criminal justice, to conservation, to health care. Ask questions and find support for your projects and ideas. Interact with ChatGPT, draw pictures with Stable Diffusion and visit the conference’s VR/AI arcade.
The conference, which is free to educators and students and includes meals and free onsite parking, is sponsored by the Albert Dorman Honors College, College of Science and Liberal Arts, Technology & Society Forum, Office of the Dean of Students, Office of Student Life (Diversity & Inclusion) and IEEE Women in Engineering (Princeton chapter).
For more details and to register, go to: https://WDF31.eventbrite.com.
When: Friday, March 31, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: NJIT’s Campus Center (2nd floor ballrooms), 323 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark
Who:
JULIA STOYANOVICH, Ph.D., is the Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Professor of Data Science, Director of the Center for Responsible AI and member of the Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at New York University.
PATRICIA ORDÓÑEZ, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an expert in applying machine learning, data mining and visualization to large repositories of clinical and biological data, among other areas.
SENJUTI BASU ROY, Ph.D., is the Panasonic Chair in Sustainability and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology and an expert in enabling human-AI teaming in scale.
REBECCA BROWN is the Director of Policy at the Innocence Project, where she leads the effort to prevent and reveal wrongful convictions and assure compensation for the wrongfully convicted upon release from prison.
SARAH CHU is the Senior Advisor on Forensic Science Policy at the Innocence Project, where she focuses on improving the valid, reliable, just and equitable application of forensic science and police investigative technologies.
RENÉE CUMMINGS is an AI ethicist and Professor of Practice in the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia, where she serves as the university’s first Data Activist in Residence.
JUNGWON KIM is a climate justice advocate and communications strategist who chronicles frontline environmental and human rights movements, focusing on rural communities in Global South countries. She is the former head of Creative & Editorial at the Rainforest Alliance and editor of Amnesty International magazine.
REBECCA HUI is the founder and CEO of the Roots Studio, a collective of artists, indigenous leaders and technologists “reimagining cultural preservation onto new formats through equitable and sustainable 2-way bridges.”
MARGARITA VINNIKOV, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Informatics Department at NJIT where she specializes in virtual and augmented reality, as well as human-computer interaction and human factors.
JAZMIN “SUNNY” MURPHY is a writer, science communicator and canid researcher at the Wolf Conservation Center. Her research centers on the intersection of Black and Indigenous histories within the United States and canid ecology, especially coyotes and wolves.
