Safiya Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Safiya Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Faculty Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she was a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). In 2021, she was recognised as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination. In 2022, she was recognised as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient. She is a chartering member of the International Panel on the Information Environment and Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative.
Watch us deep dive into the context and causes of misinformation and discuss how we can combat the threat and divisions it creates. Featuring exclusive material for virtual participants. Watch now
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Video highlights
Summit talks: technology and ethics
I’m not afraid. You’re afraid.
A thought-provoking talk by technology ethicist Tristan Harris, on the race between technology creators and our regulation on AI and our ever-increasing addiction to social media.
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Summit talks: history of disinformation
Manipulating the marginalised.
Watch researcher and scholar Rachel Kuo chart the history of how misinformation and disinformation has been used against the disenfranchised across different racial and religious groups and what we can do collectively to combat it.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Maria Ressa who is attending Nobel Prize Summit this May, launched an action plan to address the information crisis at the Nobel Peace Center’s Freedom of Expression Conference. Read more
Why should people attend the Nobel Prize Summit this May? Indian investigative journalist, Rana Ayyub, who will be joining us for the summit, warns why it is a now or never moment.Read more
Tristan Harris, a technology ethicist and speaker at this year’s summit talks with Issues about the challenge of online misinformation, ways to govern artificial intelligence and a vision of technology that strengthens democracy. Read more
Watch Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academy of Sciences, discuss the upcoming Nobel Prize Summit.
