{"id":8203,"date":"2025-07-31T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:02:44","slug":"upcoming-webinar-weaponized-intelligence-why-big-techs-ai-threatens-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/upcoming-webinar-weaponized-intelligence-why-big-techs-ai-threatens-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Webinar: Weaponized Intelligence \u2013 Why Big Tech\u2019s AI Threatens Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date:<\/strong> Tuesday, August 12, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time:<\/strong> 6:00\u20137:30 PM ET \/ 5:00\u20136:30 PM CT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location:<\/strong> Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register Now:<\/strong> Click here to RSVP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As artificial intelligence becomes deeply intertwined with military systems and corporate surveillance, urgent questions are emerging: Who controls this technology? Who is profiting from it? And what does this mean for democracy, civil liberties, and global peace?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us for Weaponized Intelligence: Why Big Tech\u2019s AI Threatens Us All<\/a><\/strong>, an emergency webinar hosted by Peace Economy Project, where leading voices will unpack the rapid militarization of AI and explore grassroots resistance to tech tyranny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Esra\u2019a Al Shafei<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founding Director, Majal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Esra\u2019a Al Shafei<\/strong> is also the co-founder of the Numun Fund, which resources and sustains women-led groups who engage with technology in their activism in the Global Majority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amber Rahman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Projects Coordinator with the Ida B. Wells Just Data
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Amber Rahman<\/strong> holds a degree in African American studies with certificates in Near Eastern Studies and Technology and Society from Princeton University. She aims for her research to disrupt the relationships between technological development, carcerality, and settler colonialism in order to challenge global surveillance practices and strategies of empire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jack Poulson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Tech Inquiry; former Google research scientist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jack Poulson<\/strong> completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at UT Austin in 2012 before serving as an Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech then as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics as Stanford University. After two years as a Research Scientist in Google\u2019s AI division working on recommendation systems and natural language processing, he resigned in protest of the company rolling back its international human rights protections and transitioned (back) into the nonprofit sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ruha Benjamin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor, Princeton
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As a a transdisciplinary scholar, writer and educator, Ruha Benjamin takes a critical and creative approach to investigating the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Norman Solomon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-founder of RootsAction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press), was published in paperback with a new afterword about the Gaza war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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