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Eleanor Drage

Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, CO-I on the Desirable Digitalisations project and PI on the Ammagamma project, and Author


Eleanor Drage is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is CO-I on the Desirable Digitalisations project and PI on the Ammagamma project, an AI ethics and regulation project that helps companies respond to the EU AI act. She also uses feminist and anti-racist ideas to improve society’s understanding of AI, for example, to demonstrate why AI-powered hiring tools can’t de-bias hiring, and why AI can’t make neutral predictions about which protests are likely to turn violent. This work has been covered by the BBC, Forbes, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Glamour Magazine and internationally. She has also spoken about her work on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 3 & 4, and the Irish National Radio. She is the co-host of the award-winning The Good Robot Podcast (top 5% globally), where she interviews top scholars and technologists about AI ethics, and is a TikToker for Carole Cadwalladr's All The Citizens' data rights channel.


She’s the author of An Experience of the Impossible: The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s SF (Oct 2023), and co-editor of The Good Robot: Feminist Voices on the Future of Technology (Feb 2024), and Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (Oct 2023). She has also worked with Deepmind, The Financial Times, The United Nations Data Science & Ethics GroupS, CNN, BNP Paribas, The Open Data Institute (ODI), and the Institute of Science & Technology. Eleanor is a Bye-Fellow and Tutor at Gonville & Caius College.


 

Keynote: Supporting students in an AI world

Friday Morning

In this talk, Eleanor will outline some of the key issues facing students today as they enter the job market in an AI-infused world. We look at uses of GPT by students and teachers, youth activism, AI-powered hiring tools, and prospective careers in AI (but not the ones you might expect!) She explores how to guide students through the headaches of the hopes and fears they have about AI, and equip them with the tools to imagine better futures.


Friday Afternoon and Saturday Morning Session

Imagining Good Technology

In this session, we explore how we can get students to engage with their own hopes for technology in the future. We hear responses from artists, activists and technologists on The Good Robot podcast to the question "what is good technology". We turn the question to participants, exploring contextual, environmental and social elements of this question. We end with a creative task: exploring speculative visions of good technology for our own contexts.




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