Keynote Talks | The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms Academic Workshop
Channel: Data & Society Research Institute
Date: 2022-03-28

Speakers: Ali Alkhatib, Margot E. Kaminski, Tawana Petty
What does it mean to encounter a new kind of harm and make it legible to others? 

Drawing from lessons in engineering, law, and community organizing, Data & Society's three invited experts offer fresh insights into how algorithms are experienced, codified, studied and communicated. 

Ali Alkhatib responds by asking us to reflect on how we can listen to particular and personal stories of harms, and synthesize insights into how harms happen generally, without engaging in a colonization of people’s suffering that just creates more harm. 

Margot E. Kaminski shares how law and policy make algorithmic harms legible in particular ways (and not in others), and discusses the importance of co-constructing models of algorithmic harm together. 

Tawana Petty details the community response to a police surveillance project in Detroit, foregrounding the stakes of this issue for human dignity, and charting a path toward a world in which people control technological tools and not the other way around. 

Visit www.datasociety.net for more information about the March 2022 workshop.