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Demystifying AI: How It Works and What’s at Stake

We invite you to join us for our premier lecture series – Frontier Forum.

Date and Time

Thursday, November 7, 2024
LECTURE | 7:00 PM

EVENT LOCATION

Marshall Student Center (MSC)   
4103 USF Cedar Circle 
Tampa, FL 33620

LECTURE

Marshall Student Center – Oval Theater – 2nd Floor
 
Join us for a book signing with Kate Crawford immediately following the lecture.  

RSVP

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required.

ABOUT THis EVENT

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are already playing a powerful role in our everyday lives—whether that’s the devices we use daily or facial-recognition software trained on Internet databases—but they can often seem abstract and opaque.

During this talk, AI expert and award-winning author Kate Crawford demystifies AI to show us how it’s “made” in the fullest sense: from data, human labor, and environmental resources. She draws from her 20 years of AI research around the world, as well as her journeys to field sites—from lithium mines to Amazon warehouses, or to Jeff Bezos’ rocket base. Crawford maps the costs of AI that are usually hidden from public view. She reveals how AI is amplifying discrimination and inequality and offers paths forward for research and policy that address the political, social, and economic effects of AI. As one of the foremost researchers on the impact of artificial intelligence, Crawford helps us understand how AI works, what’s at stake for us and our democracy, and how we can carve a fairer way forward. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Kate Crawford

Professor Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR in New York, an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.  Her latest book,  Atlas of AI(Yale, 2021) won the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, the ASSI&T Best Information Science Book Award, and was named one of the best books in 2021 by New Scientist and the Financial Times. Over her twenty-year research career, she has also produced groundbreaking creative collaborations and visual investigations. Her project  Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the V&A in London, and was awarded with the Design of the Year Award in 2019 and included in the Design of the Decades by the Design Museum of London. Her collaboration with the artist Trevor Paglen, Excavating AI, won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. She has advised policy makers in the United Nations, the White House, and the European Parliament, and she currently leads the Knowing Machines Project, an international research collaboration that investigates the foundations of machine learning. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in AI in the 2023 Times 100/AI list.


parking

Guest parking is available in Lots 3A, 3B, and 3C with additional parking in Crescent Hill Parking Garage (CHG).  Please look for signs to indicate Frontier Forum Parking.     
 
For more information about guest parking and handicap parking options, please visit the Parking Services website.

Directions

From I-275

  • Take exit 52, Fletcher Ave/CR-582A and head East for 2.5 miles.
  • Turn right at USF Palm Dr.
  • Turn left at USF Holly Dr.
  • Follow N Palm Dr/USF Palm Dr around the corner to find Parking Lots 3A, 3B, and 3C.
  • Additional parking: Crescent Hill Parking Garage (CHG) at 4119 USF Cedar Drive, Tampa, FL 33620

From I-75

  • Take exit 266, Fletcher Ave and head West on Fletcher for 4.0 miles.
  • Turn left at N Palm Dr/USF Palm Dr.
  • Follow N Palm Dr/USF Palm Dr around the corner to find Parking Lots 3A, 3B, and 3C.
  • Additional parking: Crescent Hill Parking Garage (CHG) at 4119 USF Cedar Drive, Tampa, FL 33620

For reasonable accommodations or other questions, please contact CAS RSVP