Social sciences
The New Jim Code: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha…
New Future of Work: How remote and hybrid work will shape workplaces and society with Jaime Teevan and Siddharth Suri
In this episode of The New Future of Work series, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Senior Principal Researcher Siddharth Suri explore the many ways people were impacted by work shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about how race, gender, income,…
New Future of Work: Redefining workspaces as hybrid and remote work become more prevalent with Jaime Teevan and Ginger Hudson
In this episode of The New Future of Work series, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Principal User Research Manager Ginger Hudson share how people evolved their home office setups throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and they…
The rise of parallel chat in online meetings: how can we make the most of it?
“I’ll put a link to that doc in the chat” “Sorry, my internet is terrible, I’ll put my question in the chat” “That GIF from Amy in the chat is hilarious” If these phrases sound…
New Future of Work: Managing IT and security in remote scenarios with Jaime Teevan and Matt Brodsky
In this episode of the podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Senior User Research Manager Matt Brodsky examine how the level of IT support available during the shift, including the ability to provide hardware and software,…
Computing Technology as Racial Infrastructure: A History of the Present & Blueprint for Black Future(s)
In recent years computing technology stakeholders have increasingly begun to ask questions about how to make our technology less biased, more fair, increasingly equitable, and even explicitly anti-racist. When it comes to how to make…
Lecture series aims to help spur dialogue around race and technology
In November, NYU media professor Charlton McIlwain (opens in new tab) joined fellow scholars Safiya Noble, Ruha Benjamin, and André Brock for a virtual discussion on anti-Blackness and technology hosted by the University of California…
Create human-centered AI with the Human-AI eXperience (HAX) Toolkit webinar
To assist AI practitioners in building human-centered AI, we are introducing the Human-AI eXperience (HAX) Toolkit. This suite of tools spans the end-to-end product development lifecycle, providing support where AI practitioners have requested it. In…
