November 2, 12:30PM-1:30PM ET
Why Qualitative Research Is the Linchpin of Better AI, Mary L. Gray joins Marvin’s co-founder and CEO, Prayag Narula in conversation to explore the critical role that qualitative research can play in product design, machine learning, and AI, and the recommendations, tools, and steps you can take towards developing more responsible technologies and tools. This is a live, virtual event hosted by Marvin.
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Past Events
April 4, 12:15PM-1:30PM ET
The Trouble with Dogfood: Towards a Theory of Mutuality in Computing, Mary L. Gray explores the history and tacit theory of power embedded in the practice of ‘dogfooding’ to argue for the need to develop an explicit analysis of power in computing, and maps alternate routes to building sociotechnical systems, outlining what anti-racist, queer feminist critiques can offer computing as path forward for the future of socially-accountable tech, as part of the STS Circle Spring Series at Harvard.
March 28, 1:00PM-3:30PM ET
The Future of Work: Technology and Uncertainty?, Mary L. Gray participates virtually in this live Q&A after a screening of the documentary film The Gig is Up, directed by Shannon Walsh, which uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo, as part of the One World Film Festival.
Prague Municipal Library
Mariánské nám. 1, Prague 1
March 15, 3:30PM-4:30PM ET
Societal Resilience, Communities, and New Science, Mary L. Gray participates in a panel talk with Ed Doran exploring societal resilience and focusing on lessons learned, technologies created, and partnerships built to foster a more resilient, sustainable world as part of the SXSW 2022 Conference Tech Industry Track.
2021
December 7, 6:00PM-7:30PM ET
The Banality of Scale: A Theory on the Limits of Modeling Bias and Fairness Frameworks for Social Justice (and other lessons from the Pandemic), Mary L. Gray presents a keynote talk exploring the question of what methodologies and frameworks, beyond measuring bias and fairness in machine learning, might best serve communities that are, otherwise, written off as inevitable ‘data gaps’, as part of the annual NeurIPS 2021 Conference, which aims to foster the exchange of research advances and ideas in AI and ML.
December 2, 6:00PM-7:00PM ET
Ghost Work in Pandemic Times, Mary L. Gray draws on research from her most recent book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, exposing the vast invisible human workforce powering AI, the ethics underlying this type of labor, and the implications for the future of work in a post-COVID society, moderated by Dana-Ain Davis and hosted by The Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY.
October 26, 12:00PM-1:00PM ET
Youth, Media and Queer Visibility in Rural America, Mary L. Gray speaks on her research as part of this year’s YouthLink webinar series, dedicated to topics relevant to member centers in serving rural youth, hosted by CenterLink and Hopelab with support from the Coach Foundation.
October 27, 3:30PM-4:45PM ET
Dump the Dogfood: Towards a New Theory of Power in Computing, Mary L. Gray presents the closing keynote at the 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, convening top researchers and practitioners to explore the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities.
October 19, 8:30AM-9:30AM ET
Navigating Academia and Industry, Mary L. Gray participates in a panel discussion with Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Sahar Tahvili, and Moira McGregor and moderated by Airi Lampinen and Asreen Rostami as part of Future Digileaders 2021, an event for women and non binary researchers pursuing a PhD or who are recently graduated in the broad area of digitalisation.
October 7, 3:00PM ET
Hidden Labor Powering AI, Mary L. Gray joins director Shannon Walsh to discuss the human cost of building AI, the nature of gig/ghost work, and more, moderated by PAI’s Sonam Jindal, following an advanced screening of The Gig is Up.
October 12, 6:00PM ET
The Gig is Up, in anticipation of the documentary film, Mary L. Gray joins director Shannon Walsh to discuss the real costs to the invisible laborers powering the platform economy in this special screening and Q&A, moderated by Jeff Gary and hosted by Georgetown University Law Center.
October 5, 11:00AM-11:30AM ET
More than Fair: How to Bring Communities, Computer Science, and the Social Sciences Together to Build for Social Justice, Mary L. Gray participates as a keynote speaker as part of the inaugural ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21) highlighting work where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from the social sciences and humanistic studies, can help improve equity and access to opportunity for historically disadvantaged and underserved communities.
September 8, 1:00PM-2:00PM ET
The Banality of Scale: How ‘Colorblind’ Tech is Killing Us and Other Lessons from the Pandemic, Mary L. Gray participates as a speaker in Just Infrastructures Speaker Series, launched by the researchers in the Computer Science Department, the School of Information Sciences and the College of Media at the University of Illinois to interrogate the complex interactions between people, algorithms, and AI-driven systems.
Watch the full talk here
June 8, 2:00PM-3:ooPM ET
The Emerging Global Technology Underclass, Mary L. Gray speaks with Catherine Powell as part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series and Roundtable Series on Cybersecurity and Cyberconflict, discussing the global inequalities pervasive in the technology industry, and the workers, often women, vulnerable to the lack of regulations across the sector.
Watch the full roundtable discussion here
May 16, 4:00PM-5:00PM ET
The Gig is Up Live Q&A, Mary L. Gray participates in this live, online discussion in anticipation of the documentary as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston, directed by Shannon Walsh, which uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo, hosted by HotDocs.
May 3, 7:30PM ET
The Gig is Up Live Q&A, Mary L. Gray participates in this live, online discussion in anticipation of the documentary film, directed by Shannon Walsh, which uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo, hosted by HotDocs.
April 19, 1:00PM-2:30PM ET
Gig Workers and Propositions: Policy and the Changing Nature of Work’s Interplay, Mary L. Gray in conversation with Cecilia Muñoz, Kung Feng, and Vikrum Aiyer as part of this online conversation exploring the employee versus contractor debate, what Prop 22 means for workers, economic and opportunity impacts we might see at state and national levels, and the evolving policy questions brought on by the ever-changing nature of work; introduction by Ken Jacobs and moderated by Autumn McDonald and hosted by New America CA.
April 14, 11:00AM-12:00PM ET
Virtual Q&A Politics and Ethics of Platform Labour: Learning from Lived Experiences, Mary L. Gray participates in a virtual Q&A chaired by Sian Lazar, as part of this conference hosted by the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), which seeks to explore the politics and ethics of organizing labor through digital platforms from the perspective of the lived experience of the workers themselves.
March 16, 3:00PM-4:00PM ET
The Future of Work: Ghost Work and the Impact of AI, Mary L. Gray speaks at Chang School of Continuing Education of Ryerson University on her research and her recent book Ghost Work, examining the invisible workforce powering the AI processes of big tech, and charting the path forward for a humanistic approach to the labor issues arising from this work.
Watch the full talk here
March 8, 1:00PM-2:00PM ET
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), Mary L. Gray participates as a discussant in this keynote talk by Yeshimabeit Milnerthis in a virtual conference convening researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
Watch the full keynote talk here
March 7, 9:30PM-10:00PM ET
The Democratization of Data, Mary L. Gray in discussion with Zhamak Dehghani and Amanda Obidike, moderated by Margot Gerritsen, as part of the Women in Data Science Worldwide Conference, a 24-hour event showcasing the work of data scientists across the globe, regardless of gender, and supporting women in the field.
Watch the full panel discussion here
February 10, 11:00AM-12:00PM ET
AAAS 2021, Our Oppenheimer Moment: When Big Tech, Research Ethics, and Human Rights Collide, Mary L. Gray presents as a plenary speaker as part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021 Annual Meeting.
Watch the full plenary here
2020
December 4, 12:00PM-1:00PM ET
Communicating and Community-Building: Working in, with, and against Big Tech, Mary L. Gray presents as part of Wenner-Gren’s interview series Criticism Inside, Alternative Alongside: Organizing Otherwise to Intervene in Anthropology’s Future, hosted by the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences and Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Watch the full talk here
November 16, 4:00PM-6:00PM ET
Far Afield: Anthropology as Industrial Punk Intervention, in this talk, Mary L. Gray considers the place of anthropological theory and practice in the tech sector as part of the Anthropology Career Diversity Series, hosted by Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences Anthropology Department.
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October 27, 1:30PM-3PM ET
Post-Work Productivity, Mary L. Gray participates in the Association of Internet Research 2020 conference, Life Online, as part of this roundtable discussion on the meaning of post-work within a field site/case study, and the implications of productivity within that framework, hosted by Aleena Chia and AoIR
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October 20, 12:00PM-1:00PM ET
Two Geniuses Walk into a Zoom, Mary L. Gray and Tressie McMillan Cottom, recently selected 2020 MacArthur Fellows join conversation as they discuss their previous and forthcoming projects as well as explore the intersections of their equally impressive research. The event will be moderated by Joan Donovan.
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