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Renée Cummings is a criminologist, prison psychologist, and an AI ethicist who, amongst different issues, makes a speciality of best-practice prison justice interventions and implicit bias. Given the worldwide Black Lives Matter motion and the truth that there have been quite a few examples the place technological options have been confirmed to exhibit a biased and even racist predisposition, I believed it’s about time to carry this dialog to Singularity.FM.
Throughout this 85 min interview with Renée Cummings, we cowl quite a lot of attention-grabbing matters reminiscent of: the shortage of range amongst my podcast company; her journey from rehabilitating substance abuse and prison psychology to criminology and AI ethics; the position of AI in treating dependancy; #BLM and systemic racism within the US police; overt and covert racism; the American, Canadian and Scandinavian mannequin of policing; the racist bias of predictive policing, prison justice, insurance coverage, and banking algorithms; methods of difficult the established order; what defunding the police means and the instance of Camden, NJ; City AI and it’s mission assertion; why and the way ladies of colour should get entangled in AI; why most digital private assistants like Alexa are feminine and what it says about sexism.
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Who’s Renée Cummings?
Criminologist, prison psychologist, city technologist, and AI ethicist, Renée Cummings makes a speciality of moral and accountable AI, numerous, equitable and inclusive AI design, AI for social good, social justice in AI coverage, justice-oriented AI design, AI governance, city AI and utilizing AI to save lots of lives. A Columbia College neighborhood scholar, and the founding father of URBAN AI, LLC, she is working on the intersection of AI, prison justice, epidemiological and concrete criminology. Her analysis explores utilizing AI to make underserved communities and weak populations extra resilient. Dedicated to utilizing AI to empower and remodel communities and cultures, she is an progressive collaborator and a multicultural cross-connector of a number of fields.
Renée Cummings has in depth experience and expertise in proactive crime management, crime prevention, and violence discount. Possessing a hybrid data base, she presents a strategic and systematic strategy to best-practice prison justice interventions; evidence-based regulation enforcement; designing, growing, and implementing insurance policies that work concurrently throughout a number of environments and contexts. She specializes within the utility of AI to policing and nationwide safety, AI in prison justice, the murder investigation, stopping and decreasing murder, gun and gang violence, and regulation enforcement management coaching. She additionally specialised in decreasing police violence, greatest follow use of power coaching, implicit bias coaching, evaluating officer efficiency, police reform, and different modern points in policing.
Her coaching as a criminologist additionally extends to therapeutic jurisprudence, corrections, rehabilitation, re-entry, restorative justice, and recidivism. Ms. Cummings makes a speciality of audit, planning, and supply of coordinated prison justice and regulation enforcement interventions. She promotes the significance of cross-wiring for prison justice options and is aware of the best way to efficiently mobilize inter-agency and cross-jurisdiction cooperation. Legal justice intelligence is what she delivers; helping governments and organizations to construct worldwide hyperlinks to strengthen crime prevention; incorporating new applied sciences in current methods; growing conduct and {hardware} programs that interlink to scale back vulnerabilities; tailoring extra proactive approaches to violence prevention, public security and enhancing the standard of life.