(Replay) The Equality Machine – harnessing AI for a brighter, more inclusive future

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(Replay) The Equality Machine – harnessing AI for a brighter, more inclusive future

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  • This is a replay of the session held during the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland from 6 to 7 July, 2023.

     

    Now is the time to build Equality Machines. At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future. Lobel invites us to collectively steer automation to do better and to direct the course of technology according to our most fundamental values. With insights from a broad range of fields, Lobel shows that digital technology frequently has a comparative advantage over humans in detecting discrimination, correcting historical exclusions, subverting long-standing stereotypes, and addressing the world’s thorniest problems: climate, poverty, injustice, literacy, accessibility, speech, health, and safety. Lobel’s vivid examples—from labor markets to dating markets—provide powerful evidence for how we can harness technology for good. But to do so, Lobel shows, we must overcome a mindset and fallacies that pervade our current tech policies and the ways we talk about AI.

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