Innovation or Extraction? AI and the Future of Public Education

We are excited to invite you all to a collaborative event taking place on Wednesday, April 8th from 5 – 7:15 p.m. in LIB 121 with Dr. Alex Hanna and Scholars Strategy Network called "Innovation or Extraction? AI and the Future of Public Education." This talk will interrogate dominant cultural narratives around AI, including at the CSU, while making links to the broader extractive politics of labor precarity, privatization, warfare, ecological harm, and race, class, and gender exploitation. 

Please register here. Space is limited. There will be some snacks as well.

Dr. Alex Hanna is a prominent voice in the critical AI field. Dr. Hanna is a writer and sociologist of tech, labor, and politics and the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). She co-authored The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want with Emily M. Bender in 2025. She also quite publicly resigned from Google after Timnit Gebru's controversial firing from Google's ethical AI team. 

After a 1-hour talk with Dr. Hanna, Mandana Mohsenzadegan with the Scholars Strategy Network will lead us in a 1-hour Op-Ed workshop, which supports academics' translational and public advocacy skills through op-eds writing/editing and democratizing research in public forums.

We are also partnering with two student groups, the SFSU Student Union and Resist US-Led War, so the event is open to students and organizers too.