The Glitch Speaker Series welcomes Alondra Nelson

Amongst the many other exciting announcements across Glitch and Fastly at our recent developer event (did you check out the Glitch Preview? Get your new free Fastly account?) we’ve got one more: We’re launching a speaker series for devs who want to think about how to handle the big challenges outside of code. And what better place to start than with the hottest topic right now, AI.

What we hear from people in our larger developer community is that the recent advances in AI technology have been incredibly interesting and often useful, but also that the hype has sometimes overshadowed thinking about what’s best for users, and how to take care of creators. So we’re having a conversation on exactly that with the perfect expert: Alondra Nelson.

In the last few years she’s been recognized for her leadership on both AI regulation and advancing equity in STEM fields by the Federation of American Scientists, appointed to the United Nations advisory body on AI, and in November of this year will be honored at the Ada Lovelace Festival as this year’s Morals and Machines award. At the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research institute made famous for previous scholars like Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John von Neumann, Dr. Nelson serves as the Harold F. Linder chair, where juniors and seniors can work alongside her during next year’s residential fellowship seminar, Digital (In)Equality.

Dr. Nelson is recognized as an expert on so many different areas of research into the impacts of technology that we couldn’t list them all, but just one example is her having been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world on AI by Time Magazine. And a big reason why is her work as a top advisor at the White House, where her work helped catalyze the creation of the AI Bill of Rights.

We’re very excited to speak with her later today, and you are invited to join! Tune in to the conversation at 3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific and share with us your thoughts about critically engaging with AI. See you then!