GSA Pop-up talk on AI – Renée Cummings – Critical Data Science, Design Justice and the Interdisciplinary Imagination

Renée Cummings is visiting the University of Johannesburg and will be giving a talk around AI to GSA staff and students. 
She is a global thought leader on AI, ethics and social justice. 
 
Thursday, 25 May 2023 
12:30 – 13:30 
GSA Home, JBS Park 
 
Renée Cummings: 
Senior Fellow – Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation 
Professor of Practice in Data Science – University of Virginia (UVA) 
 
Professor Renée Cummings is an artificial intelligence (AI), data and tech ethicist, and the first data activist-in-residence at the University of Virginia’s (UVA) School of Data Science where she was named professor of Practice in Data Science. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and a distinguished member of the World Economic Forum’s Data Equity Council. She is also a criminologist, criminal psychologist, therapeutic jurisprudence specialist, and a community scholar at Columbia University. She also serves as co-director of the Public Interest Technology (PIT) University Network, at UVA, and is on the board of advisors of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.