🔍 Join us for our first webinar in our research talk series, where experts share their insights and work with us!

​This month, we are grateful to have Dr. Randon R. Taylor giving a talk on Democratization and Ethics as Tools of Friction: Promise and Limits for AI Safety.

Brief talk overview:

AI ethics and democratization are widely promoted as mechanisms for mitigating harm and aligning AI with social values. Drawing on a sociological perspective, this talk explores how these forms of sociotechnical friction operate in practice and why uneven protection across social groups can still exist. I deliberate whether unaddressed social dominance may stabilize AI deployment despite the presence of tools of friction.

​​​​​💡Speaker Spotlight

Dr. Randon R. Taylor is an internationally recognized sociologist who studies the social impact of AI and emerging technologies. He was an invited panelist at the 2024 World Summit AI in Amsterdam, where he spoke on co-developing AI with the public. His current research explores community or grounded approaches to AI democratization, safety, and ethics.

This talk will be followed by a brief Q&A session with the speaker.

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