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DESCRIPTION:\nWho Gets to Write the Future? \nFrom Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination\nProponents of artificial intelligence often present it as both “just a tool” that can be used for good or ill and The Future™ of everything—“get on board or get left behind.” But whose ideas\, languages\, and values are shaping the futures AI makes possible? This talk invites us to take a closer look at the stories and assumptions embedded in emerging technologies and to ask what becomes possible when we move beyond tired old cultural scripts repackaged as shiny new innovation. Drawing on critical AI literacy and critical language inquiry\, Ruha Benjamin challenges us to cultivate an abundant imagination capable of envisioning futures that are more expansive\, just\, and … unpredictable.\n\nWe are thrilled to warmly invite everyone in our campus community to the long-awaited kickoff of the Colorado College Generative Futures series on Wednesday\, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m.. This will be a series of conversations centered on Critical Language Inquiry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence  Our first speaker is Dr. Ruha Benjamin\, and we hope you will join us in Celeste Theatre for this free event--sponsored by the Mellon Humanities for All Times Grant.\n\nBenjamin is the 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\, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want\, and she recently released her fourth book\, Imagination: A Manifesto. Ruha is the recipient of numerous awards and honors\, including the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award\, the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton\, and in 2024 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship.\n\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/10151
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LOCATION:Richard F. Celeste Theatre
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SUMMARY:Who Gets to Write the Future? A Conversation with Ruha Benjamin
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