Are AI Technologies Fueling Modern Colonialism?. Join us on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 10:00am EDT for a special Twitter Spaces conversation with grantee Karen Hao and reporting partners Heidi Swart, Nadine Freischlad, and Andrea Paola Hernández on their groundbreaking project AI Colonialism, a four-part series on the uneven impacts of AI technologies through the eyes of people experiencing them around the world. Recently published in MIT Technology Review, the series reveals how AI is impoverishing the communities and countries that don’t have a say in its development the same communities and countries already impoverished by former colonial empires. Much of the public discourse examining AI development today has centered on the U.S.: in particular, on how Silicon Valley’s profit motives have driven AI research and its repercussions. This account misses a far more global story. Silicon Valley may still be where most AI algorithms are developed but the data those algorithms are trai
Karen Hao. Karen Hao is the senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review, covering the field’s cutting-edge research and its impacts on society. She is also an MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow and a Harvard Technology and Public Purpose non-residential fellow. Her work is regularly taught in universities and cited in government reports and by Congress.
In 2019, her weekly newsletter, The Algorithm, was nominated for The Webby Awards. In 2020, she won a Front Page Award for co-producing the podcast In Machines We Trust.
Prior to Tech Review, she was a tech reporter and data scientist at Quartz. She received her bachelor's in mechanical engineering and minored in energy studies at MIT.
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