- Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed by some as having great promise, while others view the arrival of this novel technology with skepticism or concern. AI is certainly having a significant impact in many arenas of life. What are the specific implications of AI for people living in the Global South? Keynote speakers from a range of disciplines will focus on specific themes. We will have a special issue of a journal coming out of the event.
Taking a holistic perspective that considers the historical, socio-cultural, environmental, and political economic context in which AI is embedded in and entangles with the Global South, this symposium will examine the specific social, political, environmental and economic impacts of AI in and for the Global South.
Conference Schedule
8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast (open to attendees) 8:30am - 8:45am Opening Remarks: Rachel Bezner Kerr Director, Institute for African Development and Professor, Global Development, Cornell 9:00am - 10:00am Keynote Address AI and Development Impacts Arthur Mutambara Director and Professor, Institute for the Future of Knowledge (IFK) University of Johannesburg (UJ) Q & A 10:00am - 10:15am Networking and Coffee Break 10:15am - 11:15pm Session I: Culture and Representation Moderator: Rethinking AI Equity: Collaborative Perspectives from Ghana and the U.S Hua Wang, PhD, Assoc. Teaching Professor, Duffield College of Engineering, Cornell Nancy Henaku, PhD, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana Kwaku Owusu Afriyie Osei-Tutu, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Dept of English, Univ. of Ghana 11:15am-12:15pm Session II: Political Economy and Governance of AI in the Global South Moderator: Chakanetsa Mavhunga Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Youssif Hassan Assistant Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and School of Information University of Michigan 12:15pm - 1:30pm Lunch and Poster Viewing 1:30pm-2:45pm Session III: Safety and Ethics withAI Moderator: Aditya Vashistha Assistant Professor, Cornell Ann. S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell Ethics of AI in, for, and by the Global South Trystan Sterling Goetze Director, Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Program in the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell Technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women in Sudan as a threat to the Women Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda Lucie George PhD candidate in law, University of Witwatersrand (Wits) Johannesburg 2:45pm - 3:00pm Tea break and Networking 3:00pm - 3:45pm Session IV: Creativity, Visual Arts, Healthcare and AI Moderator: The Problem in Pandamatenga’: Precarity, Power and AI as Actors in Southern African Border Communities Rebecca Upton Professor of Global Public and Environmental Health; Director, Global Public and Environmental Health Program, Colgate University Kelly Van Busum Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Butler University Artists, Creativity, and the Challenges of AI Pedro Molina Political Cartoonist 3:45pm - 4:00pm Closing Discussion
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