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Allegations of an Unjust Termination at Cornell Tech By   A former employee at the Cornell Tech campus of Cornell University says she was fired for calling out racism online and for speaking out against ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. In a Medium post, the former employee, J. Khadijah Abdurahman, said that she recently defended her friend’s critical technology practice syllabus when some began to criticize it on social media for not including more non-Black scholars. Abd...

Date Time Event examines ethics, politics and future of AI Artificial intelligence (AI) is already at work in our daily lives, often undetected and often beneficial. But AI also comes with potential risks. What roles do – and should – politics, policies and ethics play in harnessing the power of AI and shaping its future? Three leading Cornell scholars discussed governmental, social and moral ramifications in “Politics, Policy & Ethics of the Coming AI Revolution” on April 15, an Arts U...

Cornell lecturer claims she was fired after suggesting Kamala Harris rose to VP only because of her mothers privileged Indian caste but she hasnt actually worked there since October J. Khadijah Abdurahman said on Medium she was fired from her role as visiting lecturer and researcher at Cornell Tech by Associate Professor Tapan Parikh  She said she was fired last month following an argument that broke out online  Abdurahman admitted she had shared a GIF of Harris sipping tea to argue the VP wa...

How has politics already been shaped and disrupted by technology and artificial intelligence? If intelligent machines are going to be a part of our political system, can they make ethical decisions? "Policy, Politics & Ethics of the Coming AI Revolution" will take place April 15 at 7 p.m. Panelists will address these and other questions during an April 15 Arts Unplugged virtual event in the College of Arts & Sciences. “Policy, Politics and Ethics of the Coming AI Revolution” will explore th...

Sarah Kreps started the lab to research the growing connections and potential disruptions at the intersection of technology and government, many of them related to artificial intelligence.

There’s a gap between technology and policy, according to Sarah Kreps. To research the growing connections and potential disruptions at the intersection of technology and government – many of them related to artificial intelligence (AI) – Kreps, the John L. Wetherill Professor of Government, launched the Tech Policy Lab in 2020. Engaging undergraduate researchers, graduate students and a postdoctoral fellow, the Tech Policy Lab examines how politics shapes the deployment of new technology...

February 26, 2021 The Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity is hosting two events this semester open to the public. “A Life Making Your Software Secure and Your Data Private… or Trying To,” an “In Focus” talk with Ulfar Erlingsson PhD ’04, is scheduled for March 2, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Erlingsson is the former head of security research at Google Brain and Machine Learning Privacy Technologies at Apple, now chief architect at a cloud security company called Lacework. He is also a Milst...