CORT First Friday Webinar - Innovating Injustice: An AI Overview

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Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and related technologies are used extensively by governments, employers, landlords, educators, and others to make key decisions about the lives of low-income people, usually with devastating consequences. This session will explore the ways AI is determining how low-income people work, live, learn, and survive--implicating substantive issue areas of benefits, employment, housing, education, domestic violence, and child welfare--and introduce ways advocates can identify and oppose them.  

Presenter Kevin De Liban is the Founder and President of TechTonic Justice, a newly launched nonprofit to fight alongside low-income people left behind by artificial intelligence (AI). Through multidimensional advocacy against harmful uses of AI, TechTonic Justice supports low-income communities and their advocates to secure the work, housing, schooling, public benefits, and family stability needed for a thriving life. 

Kevin previously worked for 12 years at Legal Aid of Arkansas—most recently as its Director of Advocacy--where he represented over 1,800 low-income people and led cutting-edge campaigns to end the state’s use of algorithms that cut the in-home care of disabled people, to stop Medicaid work reporting requirements that caused 18,000 people to wrongly lose health insurance, and to overcome qualified immunity to hold state officials personally liable for violating constitutional rights.

Kevin regularly presents about imposing accountability on AI and consults with advocates, policymakers, and journalists in the U.S. and abroad. His work has appeared on or in NPR, the PBS Newshour, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, the Economist, the Verge, and various other outlets.