Launch Event to secure Article X: Freedom from Algorithmic Bias

We are more than our past.

We hope to convene Black digital human rights defenders across the globe who want to advocate for an article addressing algorithmic bias in the forthcoming UN Declaration for the Human Rights of People of African Descent.

This is the first step in the journey on which we hope to meet during PFPAD sessions, write papers and submit them up forum to ensure the forthcoming declaration is future-facing.

At this event, there will be a short panel hosted by Black digital human rights defenders from the United States, followed by a short cocktail party.

Moderator: Thenmozhi Soundarajan

Executive Director of Equality Labs, the US's leading civil rights organization focused on caste.

The panelists will be:

Mutale Nkonde

Founder and CEO of AI for the People, an organization which seeks to increase policies to reduce algorithmic bias.

Safiya Noble

Founding Director of UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and 2021 MacArthur Fellow for work on gender bias in online search.

Dr. Desmond Patton

Randi Schwartz University Professor and expert on how Black young people use social media.

The event schedule is as follows:

6PM - Doors open

6:20PM - Mutale offers welcome

6:30PM - 45 minute panel discussion and Q&A begins

7:15PM - Networking begins

8:00 pm - Event ends

This event is being hosted by AI for the People and is thanks to the generous support of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice.

Location: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice 320 E. 43rd Street NY, NY 10017.

Host or Publisher AI For The People