Shazeda Ahmed
Role
Social scientist
Organization
UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice
Location
Los Angeles
About
Dr. Shazeda Ahmed is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Race and Digital Justice at the University of California, Los Angeles. Shazeda graduated with a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Information. Previously, she has been a researcher at Upturn, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the Citizen Lab, Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), the AI Now Institute, and Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Her research has investigated how tech firms and the Chinese government are collaborating on the country’s social credit system, the political economy of emotion-recognition technologies in China, applications of AI in Chinese courtrooms, and the epistemic culture of the emerging field of AI safety. Her work has been featured in outlets including the Financial Times, WIRED, the New York Times, and the BBC.
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Connected Projects
[ London, UK ]
AI Safety and Society
Ahead of the UK AI Safety Summit 2023, REAL ML and The Ada Lovelace Institute held a closed-door convening for civil society participants to discuss the ‘AI safety’ narratives dominating regulation and industry spaces.