First Unitarian Church of Portland is hosting their Annual Sewell Lecture on Saturday, April 25, from 1 – 4:30 PM at their building in downtown Portland. The topic is “AI as a Tool for Oppression and Resistance & Liberation”, delivered by Dr. Sylvester Johnson, who is a professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University.
Attendance is free and open to the public, but you do need to register at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-as-a-tool-for-oppression-and-for-resistance-liberation-tickets-1985679778671.
AI may seem like an abstract concept, or something that only matters to tech companies, but it’s already thoroughly enmeshed in society – and getting more so. Our work to fight oppression is not limited to using old tools, nor confined to only the oppression we’re used to. When new tools like AI become available to the world, it behooves us to understand how they can be used for or against us.