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DESCRIPTION:This talk is about the rural-urban connections of tech in the C
hinese countryside\, and the impacts of tech on rural areas that are incre
asingly globalized. Xiaowei will tell the story of their visit to a police
station in the city of Guizhou\, and how they talked to a police officer
about the implementation of their "Real Population Platform\," a platform
designed to surveil rural migrants in the city. A visit to the the offices
of Face++/Megvii\, which makes face recognition algorithms for China's Sk
ynet surveillance system\, will also be described. Through this research\,
they look at the realities of how these platforms and algorithms are used
on the ground (along with implementation challenges\, from data quality t
o collection\, and the global profiting on surveillance).
This talk
seeks to open up a broader discussion on data\, representation\, and the
ethical and philosophical questions surrounding prediction as an industry
built by tech. As the police officer in Guizhou said\, "no one can predict
the future." So why do predictive policing platforms still exist? What is
the circular logic that remains in engineering? What are the potential st
rategies and areas of countering these types of surveillance?
DTSTAMP:20200907T012737Z
LOCATION:Public Talk Stream
SUMMARY:No One Can Predict the Future - Xiaowei Wang
URL:http://scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/talk/A8LRHD/
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