Bonus Seminar: The real AI Threats are to the Internet and our Peace of Mind, with Cathy O'Neil

About this event

Join us for a bonus in-person session of the seminar series hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program!

This event features Cathy O'Neil, mathematician, author of Weapons of Math Destruction , and CEO of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company.

📅 Thursday, November 5, 11:00am–12:00pm ET

📍 MIT Media Lab, E14, Multipurpose Room

Abstract

Much of the public conversation about AI risk centers on the alignment problem. Cathy O'Neil considers it ill-posed and probably irrelevant.

In this bonus session of the AHA Seminar Series, she turns to the threats that are already here or arriving soon: class-action lawsuits, North Korean AI agent hacking swarms, and what they mean for the internet and for our peace of mind.

Her question is a practical one: how do we prepare? We hope you join us for an intriguing seminar and engaging Q&A!

Speaker Bio

Cathy O'Neil earned a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University and was a math professor at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, working as a quant at the hedge fund D.E. Shaw and as a data scientist in New York's start-up scene. She is the author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016) and The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (2022). She is the CEO of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company, and a founder and board member of OCEAN, a non-profit defending the public interest against algorithmic harm.