About
Beth Coleman is Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Faculty of Information, where she directs the City as Platform Lab. Working at the intersections of science and technology studies, generative aesthetics, and Black poesis, her research engages smart technology, machine learning, urban data, and civic life. She is the author of Hello Avatar and “Race as Technology,” a 2021 Google Artists and Machine Intelligence awardee, and a senior visiting researcher with Google Brain/Responsible AI. Coleman has held research affiliations with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, Microsoft Research, and Data & Society, and was inaugural director of the U of T Black Research Network. She is a founding member of the Trusted Data Sharing Group and incoming research lead on AI policy at the Schwartz Reisman Institute. Her current projects include the exhibition Speculative AI: Octavia Butler and Other Possible Worlds and the monograph Imitation of Life: Generative AI in/as Society.
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