Dr Venetia Brown from the Shifting Power team presented her research to the Centre for the Study of Global Development, a multidisciplinary centre within the Faculty of Wellbeing Education and Language Studies at The Open University on Tuesday 5th November. 105 people registered for the hybrid presentation, which examined a key theme: how AI researchers and practitioners from low- and middle-income countries and marginalised researchers in higher-income countries conceptualise AI’s societal and cultural harms. It explored the question, ‘What does the technology mean to these stakeholders?’ while prompting the audience to consider its implications for those in the Global North, who have the resources and wealth to research, develop, deploy, and benefit from it.
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