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Artificial Unintelligence

You're welcome to join us for the final Data Science: Ethics & Society Reading Group session of 2022, on Tuesday 6th December 2022 at 12:30-13:30.

Tickets are FREE and available now! Ticket sales end on Monday 5th December at 17:00.

We will be discussing Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard:

Making a case against technochauvinism—the belief that technology is always the solution—Broussard, a software developer and journalist, argues that it’s just not true that social problems would inevitably retreat before a digitally enabled Utopia... If we understand the limits of what we can do with technology, Broussard tells us, we can make better choices about what we should do with it to make the world better for everyone.

See our GitHub page for more information. Thank you to Alessia for suggesting the material.

Please consider either buying the book from a local, independent bookseller, or picking up a used copy online, or borrowing from your local library.

Discussion points

• How is this book different to similar books you’ve read before?
• Have you ever encountered technochauvinism in your work?
• How do you think the author’s background as a computer scientist and data journalist affects its narrative?

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Michael and Harriet (joint organisers of Data Science: Ethics & Society Reading Group events)