Artificial Intelligence in Syracuse: Lender Center Fellows Research Talk March 22
is the faculty fellow for 2022-2024. As Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and professor of anthropology in the , she studies artificial intelligence (AI) weaponry from her perspective as a cultural anthropologist. Bhan鈥檚 work shows how AI systems can transform conceptions of autonomy, accountability, human rights and justice.
On , Bhan and her student fellows present their findings at the Lender Center symposium, 鈥淒eCoded Vision: Land, Bodies and AI in Syracuse,鈥 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Sheraton 网爆门 Hotel & Conference Center鈥檚 Comstock Room. The event is open to the campus community; is required.
The researchers will define AI and show how the technology transfers to industry, workforce training, community development policies and such everyday activities as police presence and the use of technology in social contexts. They will discuss how AI technologies are fueling the 鈥淪yracuse Surge,鈥 a city- and regionwide initiative boosting technology education, tech-job training and new industries, and offer insights about their exploration.
Student fellows are ParKer Bryant, a Ph.D. student in literacy education, ; Aren Burnside, a Ph.D. student in anthropology, Maxwell School; Nadia Lyngdoh-Sommer ’25, a sociology major in the ; Cheryl Olanga ’25, a computer science major in the ; and Anna Terzaghi ’24, an international relations and anthropology major and a member of the in the College of Arts and Sciences.
In this SU News Q&A, Bhan previews key findings.
