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Saturday, June 1 • 9:30am - 10:45am
Exploring AI: Tapping around the blackbox: How to investigate Tech's impact on society

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Investigating "black-box algorithms" can yield fascinating stories when you have access to the system's source code, and statisticians on hand to help you make sense of it all. But what if you don't?
We will share our experience of investigating Big Tech and automated systems with minimum resources and look at questions such as:
- Finding the role of tech in any story,
- Learning about a piece of software without having access to it,
- Assessing the social impact of a technical system,
- Pitching stories that editors don't know where to put (is it Tech or Society?)
Participants will learn how to find a tech angle in stories that seem to have no relation with technology. And vice versa. They will receive tips and learn how to find human and social perspectives in an issue that, at first sight, may seem too technical for the general public.
Moderators
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Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Reporter, AlgorithmWatch
Nicolas Kayser-Bril is a French-German journalist and developer. At AlgorithmWatch, he keeps track of automated decision-making in the European Union. Before that, he was the head of Journalism++, an agency for data journalism that won the European Press Prize in 2015.

Speakers
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Sara Kezia Heinonen

Fellow, AlgorithmWatch
avatar for Pablo Jiménez Arandia

Pablo Jiménez Arandia

Journalist / Investigative reporter, Freelance
I am an independent journalist specialized in the social and political impact of technology. I have done several investigations on the use of AI and algorithms in the public and private sector, in which I've worked with Lighthouse Reports, the American author Virginia Eubanks, and... Read More →
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Mathilde Saliou

freelancer, Algorithm Watch
As a French journalist specializing in digital issues, I study the effects of technology on society and how the latter shapes ongoing innovations for specialized and general media. I have worked with the Guardian and Algorithm Watch, Slate France, 20 Minutes, etc. I wrote "Technoféminisme... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am CEST
Aula Donché - 1.15
  AI/Algorithms, Presentation
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