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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nArtificial intelligence (AI) technologies like Cha
 tGPT\, Stable Diffusion\, and LaMDA have led a multi-billion dollar indust
 ry in generative AI\, and a potentially much larger industry in AI more ge
 nerally. However\, these technologies would not exist were it not for the 
 immense amount of data mined to make them run\, low-paid and exploited ann
 otation labor required for labeling and content moderation\, and questiona
 ble arrangements around consent to use these data. Although datasets used 
 to train and evaluate commercial models are often obscured from view under
  the shroud of trade secrecy\, we can learn a great deal about these syste
 ms by interrogating certain publicly available datasets which are consider
 ed foundational in academic AI research.\n\n \n\nIn this talk\, I investig
 ate a single dataset\, ImageNet. It is not an understatement to say that w
 ithout ImageNet\, we may not have the current wave of deep learning techni
 ques which power nearly all modern AI technologies. I begin from three van
 tage points: the histories of ImageNet from the perspective of its curator
 s and its linguistic predecessor WordNet\, the testimony of the data annot
 ators which labeled millions of ImageNet images\, and the data subjects an
 d the creators of the images within ImageNet. Academically\, I situate thi
 s analysis within a larger theory and practice of infrastructure studies. 
 Practically\, I point to a vision for technology which is not based on pra
 ctices of unrestricted data mining\, exploited labor\, and the use of imag
 es without meaningful consent.\n\n\n\nBio:\n\nDr. Alex Hanna is Director o
 f Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist 
 by training\, her work centers on the data used in new computational techn
 ologies\, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial\, gender\, an
 d class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements\, focus
 ing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. Sh
 e holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA in Sociology fro
 m Purdue University\, and an MS and a PhD in Sociology from the University
  of Wisconsin-Madison.\n\n \n\nDr. Hanna has published widely in top-tier 
 venues across the social sciences\, including the journals Mobilization\, 
 American Behavioral Scientist\, and Big Data & Society\, and top-tier comp
 uter science conferences such as CSCW\, FAccT\, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna ser
 ves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies\, and
  sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and t
 he Scholars Council for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry.\n\n
  \n\nShe is a recipient of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Forward Aw
 ard\, has been included on FastCompany’s Queer 50 and Go Magazine’s Wo
 men We Love lists\, and has been featured in the Cal Academy of Sciences N
 ew Science exhibit\, which highlights queer and trans scientists of color.
 \n\n \n\nWith Emily M. Bender\, Dr. Hanna runs the Mystery AI Hype Theater
  3000 series\, playfully and wickedly tearing apart AI hype for a live aud
 ience online on Twitch and on their podcast.
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