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Erin Norris
There are growing concerns that democracies are crumbling or on the defense in every world region, overrun by a corrupt information space owned and operated by surveillance capitalism and weaponized by authoritarian leaders. Prominent voices argue that the abdication of the world’s information spaces to surveillance capitalism has become a meta-crisis of every Republic because it obstructs solutions to all other crises. Now, some suggest that dominant tech firms and their political allies are raising the stakes, drawing immense physical and capital resources into the profit-driven frenzy known as "AI," unconstrained by their societies and the democratic rule of law.
What is to be done to rescue, resuscitate, defend, and decisively elevate democratic resilience now and for the generations to come? These questions have never been more urgent.
Our conversation brings together three of today’s most incisive thinkers on these subjects—Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism; Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study; Architect for Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights; and Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction. Mathias Risse, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard University will moderate the discussion followed by audience Q&A.
Speakers and Presenters
Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and architect of the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.";
Cathy O'Neil, Data Scientist and Author of Weapons of Math Destruction;
Mathias Risse, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights;
Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship