And someone else mentioned, here they are paying one or two orders of magnitude less than Google and other top companies for AI/ML researchers. Should we be surprised that they don’t have technical heavy hitters on their staff, or leadership?
A) It's a 90 minute seminar, and literally all the attendees are specialized in social science fields. Seminars aren't exactly breaking the bank I'm guessing.
B) The reason that government doesn't fund stuff like "intelligent design research" is that that's not a scientific topic in the slightest. I'm guessing the words in the title are setting of Culture War alarms for you, but do you really think these issues aren't important to the health of our society? Even more so with the advent of intuitive AI?
Maps and surveys of "new worlds", passport photos and vaccination cards to control the movement of "impure" bodies, accounting spreadsheets used in plantations of enslaved peoples... all of these technologies suggest that data has always been an instrument of colonialism. But can the history of European and American colonialism also help us interpret contemporary phenomena like algorithmic racial violence, quarantine apps and vaccination apartheid, the injustices of the gig economy, and disinformation campaigns that threaten our democratic futures?
