Why I Created the National AI Equity Lab

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News Source : Inside Higher Ed

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  • I see it as my civic duty to ensure that the proliferation of artificial intelligence does not further exacerbate existing inequities in our society.
  • I recognize that new, potentially more catastrophic disparities will rapidly emerge in the absence of substantive equity-minded practices, partnerships and policies governing AI development and use.
  • My concern about tech inequities is neither new nor opportunistic; it goes back nearly 30 years.
  • I remember my first encounter with the digital divide when I was a student at Albany State, a public historically Black university in Georgia.
I will always be a staunch proponent of actual intelligencehumans reading, writing, creating, synthesizing, learning, thinking critically for ourselves and sharing knowledge person to person.

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