Talking AI, Racial Bias, Diversity and Neuroscience with Alex Fefegha & Araceli Camargo

City Centric Podcast

English - July 27, 2018 08:37 - 58 minutes - 108 MB
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This track welcomes Alex Fefegha from Comuzi Lab and our very own Araceli Camargo from Centric as we discuss AI, racial bias and discussing some of Alex's projects concerned with ensuring that decision making form an urban and social perspective is inclusive and not one-directional.

Alex is founder + head creative technologist @comuzi_lab. which is an experimental R&D agency working at the intersection of emerging technology & humans. Some of their clients include the BBC and the NHS. On the side he also runs @_cretativehustle is an award-winning educational platform for young individuals from underrepresented groups. Alex is wise beyond his years, fiercely intelligent, incredibly patient and on a constant hustle to progress. Without any further due let’s get on with the who.

Best way to get in touch with Alex is at his website which hosts other links to his work - http://alexfefegha.com/. If you’re interested in getting in touch with Araceli then you can do so via our website, thecentriclab.com.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
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In 2017 we started conversations with the Future Cities Catapult, a UK government related organisation that are on mission to advance urban innovation, to grow UK companies, to make cities better. They were interested in whether neuroscience is a field of research that can be a new evidence base and tool kit to make cities better. Sticking to their mission of bringing together businesses and universities to solve the problems that cities face, we were commissioned alongside our partners at University college London to produce a document on its potential. What started out as a report, became a playbook.

The playbook is there to give agency to practitioners to take into account more nuances of how the built environment effects experience. It is primarily set to establish what is the role of neuroscience in the built environment, where its limitations are, where its opportunities are right now, a framework for use but also where it’s going in the future.

To download a free copy head to the FCC website of futurecities.catapult.org.uk.