Equitable Design in Technology
Panel: Disability, Design, and AI
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16th
4:00pm - 5:15pm PST
Want to learn how to advance disability rights in technology?
Concerned about how AI systems can negatively impact persons with disabilities?
Then join us for an interdisciplinary panel on Disability, Design, and AI as part of Stanford's EDIT Conference featuring Lydia X.Z. Brown, Sachin Pavithran, and Karen Nakamura
Panelists will be interviewed by Stanford Journalism student, Cricket Bidleman
Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, educator, attorney, strategist, and writer, and their work examines intersectionality especially within the scope of disabled people. They are the Policy Counsel for Disability Rights and Algorithmic Fairness for the Privacy and Data Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology; Director of Policy, Advocacy, and External Affairs for the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network; and founder of the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment.
Sachin Pavithran is a civil rights advocate passionate about accessibility and has worked on developing assistive technology projects for over twenty years. He currently serves as the Executive Director for the U.S. Access Board. While he worked at Utah State University, he served as the Director of Policy at Center for Persons with Disabilities and the Program Director & Principal Investigator at Utah Assistive Technology Program.
Karen Nakamura is a cultural and visual anthropologist at the University of California Berkeley. Her first book was titled Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity (2006). Her next project resulted in two ethnographic films and a monograph titled, A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan (2014). She is currently working on the intersections of transsexuality and disability politics in postwar Japan as well as a project on disability, technology, and access especially in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML).
We hope you can join us!
Please e-mail Collin Anthony Chen at canthony@stanford.edu for any accessibility requests for the event. The event will be live-captioned and recorded.
Checkout our conference website here to learn about more events related to inclusive design!
Sponsored by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, and the Ethics, Society and Technology Hub.
