Course Title: The Data Dilemma: How Artificial Intelligence Uses Personal Data to Profit and Polarize America
Instructor: Joycelyn Tate, JD, SAIS '05
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February 20, 2025 - Februaru 27, 2025 (2 Sessions)
Thursday, 7:00PM ET - 8:30PM ET
Virtual via Zoom
Course Description: This course will explain how companies use complex algorithms and artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of personal data to target products and services to consumers. This course will also review how these same algorithms are fueling increased polarization in the U.S. and being used by industries and institutions to make decisions about economic, employment and other opportunities that discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and other characteristics.
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