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The AI Accountability Network at ZEG Storytelling Festival
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June 13 - 15, 2025
The 2024-25 AI Accountability Fellows will be speaking at four sessions at the ZEG Storytelling Festival in Tblisi, Georgia.
SURVEILLANCE: INVESTIGATING WHO IS WATCHING YOU: AI-Powered Technologies and Privacy
June 13, 2025 11:00-12:00
Clément Pouré, Francesca D’Annunzio, and Nico Schmidt
Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever for governments, law enforcement, and companies to surveil citizens in their public and private lives. In this roundtable, Pulitzer Center AI Fellows Clément Pouré, Francesca D’Annunzio, and Nico Schmidt will discuss their reporting on workplace surveillance, the arsenal of AI-powered technologies at the U.S.-Mexico border, and how companies have circumvented EU regulation to sell their surveillance technologies to other countries. Leave with tips and blueprints for how to investigate public and private actors in your country.
GLOBAL SOUTH v BIG TECH: Fighting Back Against Platform Power
June 13, 2025 12:00-13:00
Sofia Schurig, Alexandre Amirejibi, Branko Brkic, moderated by Marina Walker Guevara
Across the Global South, journalists and technologists are confronting the harms unleashed by Big Tech, from AI-driven disinformation and digital exploitation to the failures of platforms to protect the most vulnerable.
GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT
June 13, 2025 15:00-16:00
Fabiola Torres, Sushmita
An AI model is only as good as the data behind it, and those who are already marginalized are the ones who are most affected. In this session, the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network will discuss the importance of data behind the digitization of land ownership in India and the creation of a model for welfare in Peru. Journalists Fabiola Torres and Sushmita will share how they investigated the data behind these systems and present templates to empower reporters to avoid common mistakes as they investigate technologies that affect their communities.
INVESTIGATING THE INFRASTRUCTURE BEHIND AI
June 14, 2025 11:00-12:00
Pablo Jiménez Arandía, Marché Arends, Kathryn Cleary, Sofia Schurig
In this workshop, participants will work together to evaluate the environmental, labor, and regulatory impact of a fictional AI system. How would you evaluate this system? What data would you need? What barriers do you anticipate? Participants will learn from the reporting of three Pulitzer Center AI Fellows to ground your ideas: Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary on the labor behind AI training data; Pablo Jiménez Arandia on the environmental impact of data centers; and Sofia Schurig on the influences on AI regulation.
