Who Owns the Future? Reimagining Education from AI to Abundant Imagination

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This public lecture will be delivered by Professor Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University, and will take place both in person and online.

Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh

This hybrid public lecture, hosted by the Centre for Research in Digital Education, is part of the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series funded by the Robertson Endowment. Presentation title: Who Owns the Future? Reimagining Education from Artificial Intelligence to Abundant ImaginationSpeaker: <a href="https://uoe-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ckong_ed_ac_uk/Lists/Speaker_037f2b571e074aa580e6a2c0fd6e84a7/DispForm.aspx?ID=111&e=ug8d7U" title="https://uoe-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ckong_ed_ac_uk/Lists/Speaker_037f2b571e074aa580e6a2c0fd6e84a7/DispForm.aspx?ID=111&e=ug8d7U" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Ruha Benjamin</a>, Princeton UniversityChair: <a href="https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-sian-bayne" title="https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-sian-bayne" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Siân Bayne</a>, Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh <h4>Time</h4><ul><li>Drinks Reception (EFI Room 2.55) - 5:00 - 5:30pm</li><li>Presentation followed by Q&A - 5:30 - 7:00pm</li></ul> <h4>Venue</h4><ul><li>In person: Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh</li><li>Online: Microsoft Teams (this event will not be recorded)</li></ul> <h4>**IMPORTANT NOTE**</h4>Login details will be available upon completion of your registration. Make sure you scroll down to the very bottom of the message to see the login details. If you don't receive that message, please check your spam folder or contact us at <a href="mailto:MHSES-RKEI-Events@ed.ac.uk" title="mailto:MHSES-RKEI-Events@ed.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MHSES-RKEI-Events@ed.ac.uk</a>. About this eventFrom automated decision systems in healthcare, policing, education and more, technologies have the potential to deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to harmful practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin takes us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech predictions with historical and sociological insight.When it comes to AI, Ruha shifts our focus from the dystopian and utopian narratives we are sold, to a sober reckoning with the way these tools are already a part of our lives. In so doing, she considers how higher education is ground zero for reimagining and retooling the default settings of technology and society. About the speakerRuha Benjamin is Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022), and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024). Ruha is the recipient fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award, President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton, and most recently the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. 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