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Co-Opting AI: Debt

Co-Opting AI: Debt will discuss how AI’s predictive properties are entangled with social classification and the allocation of resources.

The Co-Opting AI event series is convened by Mona Sloane. It is hosted by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, UVA’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, and Sloane Lab.

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When

Wednesday, May 14, 2025
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM EST

Where

Online

Who

(Moderator)

Research Projects

Co-Opting AI

Speakers

Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, Director, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Simone Browne

Simone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently writing her second book, which examines the interventions made by artists whose works grapple with the surveillance of Black life. She is an EPIC Advisory Board Member, and A People’s Guide to Tech Advisory Board Member. Her research focuses on the social and ethical implications of surveillance, both AI-enabled and not. Examining potential algorithmic harms and tech equity in order to better understand the development and impact of AI, her research ranges from the environmental impact of electronic waste to the effects of increased pollutant exposure experienced by those living near data and fulfillment centers. She is the author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness.

Former Chief Technologist, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Erie Meyer

Erie Meyer, former chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). At the CFPB, Meyer led a team of expert technologists, all of whom were recently dismissed by new CFPB leadership. She recently filed an affidavit in federal court concerning the CFPB’s records, data management practices, and the threat that mass data deletion would pose to the consumer protection work of the CFPB. Meyer served on the implementation team that launched the CFPB, and became a founding team member of the Bureau’s Office of Technology and Innovation. Before rejoining the CFPB in 2021, Ms. Meyer served as Senior Advisor to Chair Khan for Policy Planning and Chief Technologist for the Federal Trade Commission, and as then-Commissioner Chopra’s Technology Advisor. Before serving at the FTC, she launched the U.S. Digital Service in the White House.

Faculty Co-Lead

Mona Sloane

Affiliations Assistant Professor of Data Science, School of Data Science Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Department of Media Studies, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Bio Mona Sloane is an assistant professor of data science and media studies at the University of Virginia (UVA). As a sociologist, she studies the intersection of technology...

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