AI for Liberation Panel

Welcome & Keynote

Water, Public Investment & Power Breakout

By 2100, sea-level rise will lead to the displacement of up to 13 million people in the United States. In Miami alone, over 1 million people will be displaced. This process is already evident in Black communities on higher ground, such as Little Haiti and Liberty City.

Scaling Data Activism Panel

The Black church, a model for philanthropy today, calls it standing in the gap— - responding to the needs of our communities, government, or private sector are nowhere to be found.

Reparations AI: Future of Work Breakout

Two hundred and thirty years ago, the invention of the cotton engine, or ‘cotton gin,’ revolutionized the US economy. By automating an essential part of growing cotton, the demand for cotton grew, as did the demand for labor.

Our Bodies Keep Score Breakout

Each year, more African American women die of heart disease than breast cancer, lung cancer, and strokes combined. Eighty percent of Black women will suffer from uterine fibroids before the age of 50, and Black women in the U.S. are three to five times more likely to experience a pregnancy-relate...

No More Data Weapons Breakout

The protests to the murder of Mike Brown were met with army tanks, SWAT teams, and assault rifles. When the world joined in collective grief and action after the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, what stung more than pepper spray in our eyes was the erosion of our constitutional rights by law enforcement using high-powered surveillance technologies.

A New Education Is Possible Breakout

Seventy years after Brown vs Board of Education, schools in America remain separate and unequal. School districts predominantly serving students of color receive $23 billion less in funding than majority-white districts.

Reparations AI: Housing Breakout

Home is where we ground ourselves, rest, and nourish ourselves as individuals and within communities. Home fosters our earliest creativity and allows us to feel secure. In cities like Boston, Los Angeles, and New York City, Black people make up more than 55% of the homeless population.

Food, Land & Justice Breakout

It is estimated that twenty-five percent of Black people live under food apartheid. Black people living under food apartheid are 80% more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. They are four times more likely to suffer from kidney failure and other health issues that result from obesity.

Movement Science Lab: Participatory AI Workshop

At Data for Black Lives, we unite scientists and community-based activists to take collective action using data to fight bias, build progressive movements, and promote civic engagement.