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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

 

Community Research Seminar: Imperial Technologies

Friday 26 March 2021, 15:00–17:00 GMT

Co-facilitated by: Projit Bihari Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania), Rachel Adams (Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa), Alan Blackwell (University of Cambridge), Addisu Damena

Discussant: Noopur Raval (AI Now)

This event juxtaposes the entangled histories of race, caste, tribe and nationalism in twentieth-century India with AI developments in twenty-first century South Africa and Ethiopia.

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