Wednesday, December 26, 2018

01/23 Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age: from the smartphones to AI

Charlie Welch<cwelch@tecschange.org>
*Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age: from the
smartphones to AI*

Please join Science for the People <https://scienceforthepeople.org/> on
*WednesdayJan 23^rd , 2019**from 7-9pm**at Boston University* for an
exciting discussion on the social implications of technology. We'll be
discussing the political implications on artificial intelligence and new
technology with a politically and technically informed conversation.
Featuring:

*Nicole Aschoff* <https://nicoleaschoff.com/>**- Editor of Jacobin
Magazine <https://jacobinmag.com/>, author of "The New Prophets of
Capital
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551900-the-new-prophets-of-capital>"
(Verso 2015) and author of the forthcoming book "The Smartphone Society"
(Beacon 2019) based on thisarticle
<https://jacobinmag.com/2015/03/smartphone-usage-technology-aschoff>.

*Yardn Katz* <https://yarden.github.io/>- Systems Biology Fellow,
Harvard Medical School, member of Berkman Center, and author of
"Manufacturing the AI revolution"
<https://yarden.github.io/publication/ai_revolution/>

*Ben Tarnoff* <http://www.bentarnoff.com/>- Columnist for Guardian
Newspaper <https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ben-tarnoff>, organizer
with Tech Workers Coalition <https://techworkerscoalition.org/>, founder
and editor ofLogic Magazine <https://logicmag.io/>.

*Sponsored by:*Science for the People
<https://scienceforthepeople.org/>- Boston,Logic Magazine
<https://logicmag.io/>, Hariri Institute of Computing

The event will take place at the Boston University in the Hariri
Institute Seminar Room located on the Cummington Mall
<https://www.google.com/maps/place/BU+Hariri+Institute+for+Computing/@42.3489377,-71.1044839,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e379f0c4e57a97:0xf082dcc3e210c53c!8m2!3d42.3489357!4d-71.1033896>.

Updated info at https://physics.bu.edu/~pankajm/techpanel.html or
contact: pankajmehta AT protonmail.com <http://protonmail.com/>.
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