AI Meets Ethics
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
October 31, 2023, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Wendy Wong, Professor of Political Science & Principal's Research Chair, UBC Okanagan
Title: We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
Abstract: This talk will discuss some of the key themes from We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age, which is a new book published by MIT Press. Human rights are one of the major political innovations of the 20th century. Their emergence after World War II and global uptake promised a new world in which human autonomy, community, dignity, and equality could be protected. Datafication, however, poses some unique challenges for our human rights framework because they are "sticky" and ubiquitous in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). The talk focuses on five takeaways from the book that ties AI and data to human rights.
Bio: Dr. Wendy H. Wong is a Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She is an expert on global governance, emerging technologies, and human rights. Dr. Wong is the author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT) and two other award-winning books: Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights and (with Sarah S. Stroup) The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs.