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Chris Wood (LGBT Tech): How can we ensure our LGBT+ voices are heard through our data?
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Chris Wood (LGBT Tech): How can we ensure our LGBT+ voices are heard through our data?

In AI We Trust?

June 28, 202345m 0s

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Show Notes

This week on In AI we Trust? Executive Director of LGBT Tech, Chris Wood, joins Miriam Vogel and guest-co-host Kathy Baxter for a special episode in celebration of Pride Month. Join this week’s conversation on the duality of technology for the LGBT community – how it can be an impactful medium to foster connection in the LGBT+ community or a harmful tool leveraged against the same individuals – the significance of diversity in tech, the complexity of representation in our datasets, as well as his important research and other initiatives that range from broadband access in rural communities to building an AI of their own. 


Resources Mentioned this Episode:
LGBT Tech Website
Vision For Inclusion: An LGBT Broadband Future
LGBT Tech Programs

Topics

technologyAI GovernanceAITechArtificial IntelligenceAI literacyAI Policy