Charlton Mcilwain
Vice Provost & Professor, New York University
About
Author of the book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter, Dr. Charlton McIlwain is Vice Provost at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication. He works at the intersections of computing technology, race, inequality, and racial justice activism. He has served as an expert witness in landmark U.S. Federal Court cases on reverse redlining/racial targeting in mortgage lending, and recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on the financial services sector. He is the author of a recent report for PolicyLink titled, "Algorithmic Discrimination: a Framework and Approach to Auditing & Measuring the Impact of Race-Targeted Digital Advertising." McIlwain is the founder of the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies, heads NYU’s Alliance for Public Interest Technology, is NYU’s Designee to the Public Interest Technology University Network, and is Board President at Data & Society Research Institute.
Sessions & Events
The When, What, Where, Why & How of AI Bias: A Conversation with Meredith Broussard
NYC 2023
It is well known that machine learning systems introduce and or/reproduce various types of biases associated with race, gender, ability, language and many other such human differences. This fireside chat style conversation with computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard features tips and tools for identifying how and why biases get introduced in everything from large language models to various kinds of machine learning applications, and guidance for how to address and/or prevent common biases reflected in common or novel applications used by branding and marketing professionals.
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