Wearn Lecture: "Who Owns the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination"

Dr. Ruha Benjamin will lecture on "Who Owns the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination."

Dr. Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American studies at Princeton University where she specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and social inequity. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship in 2024.

In this talk, Dr. Benjamin takes a transdisciplinary approach to public scholarship, inviting us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and providing conceptual tools to decode tech predictions with historical and sociological insight. When it comes to AI, Benjamin shifts our focus from the dystopian and utopian narratives we are sold, to a sober reckoning with the way these tools are already a part of our lives.

Free and open to the public; tickets will be required but are not available yet.