The Program on Data and Governance, a program of the Moritz College of Law and the Translational Data Analytics Institute, is proud to present the next event in the Data Points: Ideas on Data, Law and Society Lecture Series:
Surveillance Capitalism and AI: Is Big Brother Manipulating You?
About the event:
Around 2017, people started to distrust big tech companies, mainly because of concerns about online manipulation. Social media, once praised for promoting free communication and democracy, faced serious criticism. The Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed the breadth and depth of “surveillance capitalism,” a sociotechnical order designed not to liberate, but to surveil, influence, and exploit people. In this talk, Daniel Susser examines these concerns and criticisms. He looks at what they got right, what they missed, and what they misunderstood. He also discusses what lessons we can learn to better handle the excitement and anxiety about new technologies like AI.
About the speaker:
Daniel Susser is an associate professor in the Department of Information Science, where his research focuses on ethics, politics, and policy in computing. A philosopher by training, he studies governance problems raised by new and emerging data-driven technologies and the underlying conceptual and normative problems that make it difficult to understand and tackle them. He has broad interests in technology ethics and policy, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies, especially critical questions about data, privacy, and the ethics of automation. Find more about the speaker here.
