[PAST EVENT] Unmasking AI Book Chat

February 18, 2025
12:30pm - 1:50pm
Location
Swem Library, Ford Classroom
400 Landrum Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
  • Free food

“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.

Unmasking AI goes beyond the headlines about existential risks produced by Big Tech. It is the remarkable story of how Buolamwini uncovered what she calls “the coded gaze”—the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products—and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Join us for a book discussion over lunch.

Participants should read the book ahead of time; it is available in the library catalog as an Overdrive/Libby ebook. 


Sponsored by: W&M Libraries

Contact

Candice Benjes-Small, cbsmall@wm.edu