What Algorithms Say About You

Kate Crawford has spent over a decade researching the social, political, and environmental implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Distinguished Research Professor at NYU, co-founder of the AI Now Institute, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, and the inaugural visiting Chair in AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Kate is also an electronic musician who is known for her work in the bands B(if)tek and Metric Systems. Her forthcoming book is called Atlas of AI (Yale, 2021).  

Lily Peng is a physician-scientist, with an M.D. and Ph.D. from University of California, San Francisco, who works to bring breakthrough science from bench to bedside. She is the lead for the Medical Imaging team for Google AI Healthcare, which focuses on applying deep learning to medical data. Before Google, she was a product manager at an online networking service for physicians, and a co-founder of a medical device start-up developing a small implantable drug delivery device.

Christine Vogeli is a scientist and health services researcher whose interests include health disparities, healthcare quality, and primary care. On the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, she serves as director of evaluation and research at the Center of Population Health at Mass General Brigham in Boston. She has played a leading role in the design, implementation and evaluation of care delivery innovations across the Mass General Brigham integrated health care system.

An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. He is the co-author of three best-selling books: The Start-Up of You, The Alliance, and Blitzscaling. He is the host of Masters of Scale, an original podcast series and the first American media program to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests.

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Dr. Lindsey Zuloaga is the Director of Data Science at HireVue, managing a team that builds and validates machine learning algorithms to predict job-related outcomes. Lindsey has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and started her career as a Data Scientist in the healthcare space. At HireVue, she is working to completely transform traditional interviewing with a platform that focuses on understanding more of the candidate as a whole person, including interview responses, coding abilities, and cognitive skills as opposed to just the facts shown on a resume.

Greg Corrado is currently a principal scientist and research director at Google AI, where he is co-founder of the Google Brain team. He works at the intersection of biological neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and scalable machine learning and has published in fields ranging across behavioral economics, neuromorphic device physics, systems neuroscience, and deep learning. Before coming to Google, he worked at IBM Research on neuromorphic silicon devices and large-scale neural simulations.

Rashida Richardson is a civil rights lawyer specializing in race, emerging technologies and the law. She is a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers Law School and a Senior Fellow in the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund. Richardson studies the social and civil rights implications of data-driven technologies, including artificial intelligence. Previously, Richardson served as the director of policy research at New York University’s AI Now Institute and legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of New York.

Martha Minow served as Dean of the Harvard Law School from 2009 to 2017. An expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities, Minow writes and teaches about privatization, military justice, and ethnic and religious conflict. For the past several years, she has taught law and computer science students about emerging issues of fairness, privacy, and accountability in the age of algorithms. She has been on the faculty of Harvard University since 1981, where she is currently 300th Anniversary University Professor.

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist who uses data-centered journalism to explore technology and the people affected by it. She is editor-in-chief and founder of The Markup and has led investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, (Times Books, 2014) and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009).

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