AI Week

Let's look at the use of AI in images, video, and audio production.

Come explore some of the ways AI tools can help you organize information and fine-tune your own work!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are central to U.S. law enforcement and adjudication. However, their deployment also reveals deep-rooted racial biases and ethical concerns. For instance, peer-reviewed research shows that facial recognition algorithms underperform when analyzing the faces of women, young people, and individuals with darker skin tones, leading to wrongful arrests and false identifications that disproportionately impact communities of color. This talk explores how federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), have leveraged AI and vast data resources—ranging from DMV databases to utility records—to conduct mass surveillance, fast-track deportations, and "predict" crime. As a scholar of law and society and immigration, I pay close attention to the intersection of AI, systemic racism, and immigration policy – and how law and technology must work together to address substantive justice and equal protection. I also discuss the urgent need for regulatory oversight to prevent the unchecked expansion of biased surveillance practices in immigration enforcement today.

AI Week will kick off on 2/11 with a faculty panel during Common Hour. Four panelists — Prof. Alexandra Bradner (Philosophy), Prof. Katherine Elkins (IPHS), Prof. Noah Aydin (Mathematics), and Prof. Madeline Wade (Physics) — will discuss all facets of AI. Panelists will provide expert insight and challenge one another to reconsider the fundamental structure of coursework at Kenyon.