Who AI Can't See: Two TEDx Voices on What AI Gets Wrong, Leaves Out, and Why It Matters

​What if the biggest risk of AI isn't what it gets wrong about you, but whether it sees you at all?

​A year apart on the TEDxRoxbury stage, Shana Feggins and Angela Pitter investigated that question from opposite ends.

​Shana Feggins, in "Rewriting AI's Future for All", looked at the people behind the machine: who builds AI, whose perspectives shape the choices behind it, and what happens when human blind spots make their way into systems increasingly used in hiring, lending, healthcare, and other consequential decisions. Her warning: AI has no morals. Humans do.

​Angela Pitter looked beneath it, at the information AI has to work with. In her TEDxRoxbury talk "Is AI Erasing Your Neighborhood?" (named a TEDx Editor's Pick), she calls it a new kind of redlining: what happens when the people, businesses, and whole communities AI should know about are missing, poorly represented, or hard for these systems to find and verify.

​They ended up asking the same thing:

​Who does AI see, who does it leave out, and what happens when you're missing from the answer?

​For Boston AI Week, they're bringing those two ideas together for the first time. It isn't two TEDx talks replayed on Zoom. It's a live conversation about how AI builds its picture of people, businesses, and communities, what happens when that picture is incomplete, and how much say we still have over it.

​Join us on Zoom and be part of the room. Ask a question, share what you're seeing, challenge an idea, or just listen in. Prefer to watch? We'll also stream live on LinkedIn.

​Register for the Zoom link, and we'll send you the recording afterward.