Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Lecture Series

The Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity lecture series hosts speakers from industry and academia to engage in cross-disciplinary conversations related to fairness and opacity in algorithms. Lectures are sponsored by the Berkeley Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Working Group (AFOG).

Previous Events

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Restorative Justice Workshop

Oct 21, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Infrastructures, Assemblages, and Ecosystems

Oct 7, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Refiguring Systems and Justice

Sep 23, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

How conceptions of justice, especially restorative justice, can drive the structures and practices of content governance.

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Constructions of Justice and “Ethical Tech”

Sep 9, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

The problems, potentials, and pitfalls of emphasizing justice in content governance systems, with Anna Lauren Hoffman and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg.

Symposium on Surveillance and Education

Apr 15, 2022, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Faculty, administrators, students, and activists explore the roles of surveillance and policing in the classroom, on campus, and in the community.

Dr. André Brock: On Race and Technoculture

Dec 8, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Technoculture is the American mythos and ideology. Where does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture?

Postponed: Robotic Storytellers: Appreciating the Algorithms that Make Us Who We Are

Nov 17, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Dr. David Robinson explores the algorithms we use to define ourselves, and how they can work as enchantments — stories that make themselves come true.

The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

Nov 10, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Dr. Daniel Greene explores why technology solutions aren’t solving complex social problems such as STEM education and the digital divide.

Dr. Latanya Sweeney: How Technology Will Dictate Our Civic Future

Nov 5, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Dr. Latanya Sweeney pioneered the field of data privacy and launched the study of algorithmic fairness.

Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 2

Apr 26, 2021, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm

Beyond the Ouch: Activating Anti-racists in Data and Digital Spaces

Apr 14, 2021, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Tawana Petty responds to the racial bias baked into our data, digital, and technological systems

Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 1

Apr 12, 2021, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm

Understanding the recent resistance to facial recognition technologies, to put this moment in conversation and context.

Social Media Is Too Important to Leave Up to the Market

Mar 15, 2021, 10:30 am to 11:30 am

Ethan Zuckerman explores a model for rethinking and rebuilding social media and digital institutions as public goods.

The Refusal Conference

Oct 14 2020 - All-day event

A virtual conference exploring organized technology refusal from historical and contemporary vantage points

Repairing Innovation: The Labor of Integrating New Technologies

Feb 24, 2020, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Madeleine Clare Elish uncovers the hidden labor behind automated aviation, driverless cars, small scale agriculture, grocery retail, and emergency healthcare.