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SUMMARY:Bonus Seminar: The real AI Threats are to the Internet and our Pea
 ce of Mind\, with Cathy O'Neil
LOCATION:Building E14: Media Lab Multipurpose Room\, 75 AMHERST ST\, Cambr
 idge\, MA 02142
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a bonus in-person session of the seminar series ho
 sted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program!\
 n\nThis event features Cathy O'Neil\, mathematician\, author of Weapons o
 f Math Destruction\, and CEO of ORCAA\, an algorithmic auditing company.\
 n\n📅 Thursday\, November 5\, 11:00am–12:00pm ET\n📍 MIT Media Lab\, E14\
 , Multipurpose Room\n\nAbstract\n\nMuch of the public conversation about 
 AI risk centers on the alignment problem. Cathy O'Neil considers it ill-p
 osed and probably irrelevant.\n\nIn this bonus session of the AHA Seminar
  Series\, she turns to the threats that are already here or arriving soon
 : class-action lawsuits\, North Korean AI agent hacking swarms\, and what
  they mean for the internet and for our peace of mind.\n\nHer question is
  a practical one: how do we prepare? We hope you join us for an intriguin
 g seminar and engaging Q&A!\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\nCathy O'Neil earned a PhD i
 n Mathematics from Harvard University and was a math professor at Barnard
  College before moving to the private sector\, working as a quant at the 
 hedge fund D.E. Shaw and as a data scientist in New York's start-up scene
 . She is the author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increase
 s Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016) and The Shame Machine: Who Pr
 ofits in the New Age of Humiliation (2022). She is the CEO of ORCAA\, an 
 algorithmic auditing company\, and a founder and board member of OCEAN\, 
 a non-profit defending the public interest against algorithmic harm.\n\nh
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