Speaking
Keynotes, panels and invited talks on AI governance, ethics and human rights.
Radio
- Apr 2022Changing Your Name to “Fit In” in AmericaKQED Forum with Mina Kim
- Aug 2021Bhala: a world-first African multilingual keyboardEarly Breakfast with Africa Melane, 702
- Jun 2019The Quest for Inclusive & Ethical TechnologyWUWM Lake Effect
Interviews
- The Movement to Decolonize AI: Centering Dignity Over DependencyStanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
- What AI can learn from Ubuntu ethicsGoogle People + AI Research
Selected talks
- Oct 2023 · PanelReimagining AI: Decolonization and Technological EquitySixth Annual Conference on Decolonizing International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Jun 2022 · PanelLocation Data in the Context of Public Health, Research, and Law Enforcement: An Exploration of Governance FrameworksNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — workshop · video
- Feb 2022 · PanelUNESCO Roundtable on the Ethics of Artificial IntelligenceUNESCO — panellist · video
- May 2021 · DiscussantFraming Decisions: a book talk on <em>Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil</em>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard — with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Malavika Jayaram · video
- May 2021 · PanelForesight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech EthicsBerkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard — with Anasuya Sengupta, Andrew Zolli and Aarathi Krishnan · video
- Apr 2021 · PanelCo-Opting AI: IdeologyNYU Institute for Public Knowledge, with the Center for Responsible AI — with Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Ahmed Ansari and Mona Sloane · video
- Apr 2021 · TalkExamining the impact of surveillance-based techniques on Black, racialized and Global South communitiesC4SG Talk Series, University at Buffalo · video
- Feb 2021 · KeynoteAI Ethics and Global ContextsCritical AI, Rutgers University — in conversation with Alex Guerrero and Matthew Stone · video
- Jan 2021 · TalkWhiteness Behind Modern Digital Myths and MythologiesCTM Festival 2021, Berlin — in <em>Mutating Hazards: New Threats and Injustices in AI</em>, with Maya Indira Ganesh and Jason Edward Lewis · video
- 2021 · TalkSpirits Amid the MachinesSNF Nostos Conference, Stavros Niarchos Foundation · video
- Jun 2020 · PanelHumanity & AI: Can We Keep Humanity at the Center?SNF Conference, Stavros Niarchos Foundation — with Stuart Russell, Tristan Harris, Tenzin Priyadarshi and Aarathi Krishnan · video
- Mar 2020 · KeynoteEthics, AI and HealthData Science & AI Summit for Health in Africa, Kigali
- Feb 2020 · KeynoteThe Moral Limitations of Rationality and Their Implications for the Ethics of AICentre for Ethics, University of Toronto
- Feb 2020 · KeynoteSocial and Ethical Impacts of AI and Big DataPrincess Margaret / International Cancer Expert Corps, Toronto
- Feb 2020 · TalkColoniality and AI: The Missed Connection in the Harms of AICarr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Feb 2020 · PanelOvercoming the limits of rationality in humans and in rational machines through ubuntu’s relational personhoodUniversity of São Paulo
- Jan 2020 · PanelEthics, Technology, and Human RightsAfrica Center launch, University of St. Gallen
- Dec 2019 · ConsultationArtificial Intelligence: Technical Limitations and RisksUN and Government of Uganda, Expert Task Force on Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies
- Nov 2019 · PanelAI & Children’s Rights: Sub-Saharan AfricaUnited Nations Internet Governance Forum, Germany · video
- Nov 2019 · PanelUbuntu Ethics for AI2nd Istanbul Privacy Symposium, Istanbul Bilgi University
- Nov 2019 · PanelDecoding the PatriarchyConference on Gender & International Affairs, The Fletcher School
- Aug 2019 · KeynoteThe future isn’t white: examining current shifts in the intersection of human rights, ethics and techIFLA World Library and Information Congress — ARL Section Inclusiveness Satellite Meeting · video
- Jul 2019 · KeynoteEthics: equity as a return to equalityResponsible Computer Science Challenge, Mozilla Foundation
- Jun 2019 · TalkUbuntu as an ethical framework for AIGoogle AI Research Lab, Accra
- Jun 2019 · WorkshopAI and Privacy: Challenges and Ways Forward in the Global SouthRightsCon, Tunis
- May 2019 · PanelTranslating Research on AI’s Impacts into Human Rights AdvocacyHarvard Law School
- May 2019 · PanelData as DevelopmentBelfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard
- May 2019 · TalkUbuntu as an ethical framework for AIBerkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
- Apr 2019 · TalkTowards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st CenturyCarr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Apr 2019 · TalkOn Becoming Human: An African Notion of Justice and Fairness in Machine LearningNortheastern University
- Apr 2019 · TalkOn Becoming a Person: Ethics for AIAsilomar Microcomputer Workshop
- Oct 2018 · Invited expertFairness, Sustainability and Data for the Global SouthHarvard University