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Blaise Agera y Arcas is a frequent speaker at TED and many other conferences, winner of MIT's TR35 Prize and Fast Company's Most Creative People award, and a Vice President and Fellow at Google Research. He leads a 500 person team working on Artificial Intelligence (AI), large language models, smart devices, technology ethics, and privacy. Publicly visible projects from his team include Federated Learning, Artists and Machine Intelligence, Coral, Hollywood gender equality work with the Geena Davis Institute, and many AI features in Pixel and Android. In 2016 he wrote a widely read essay on the relationship between art and technology, and in 2017 he co-authored another popular essay on physiognomy and bias in AI and a refutation of claims that facial structure reveals sexual orientation. While Blaise's role at Google focuses on AI, his career has often been at the intersection of computing with other disciplines in the sciences and humanities. He raised early alarms (starting in 2015) about fairness and bias in machine learning, which led to deeper study of the differential impacts of technology on people underrepresented in tech. His quest to map the changing landscape of human identification with minority and majority subgroups led to this book. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
"""A fascinating, provocative account of the contradictions and complications of identity and community in the technological age."" -- Sonia Katyal, Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research at UC Berkeley School of Law ""This is that rare book that not only explores a fascinating topic, but that teaches you how to think more deeply about any topic. Insightful and original."" -- Tim O'Reilly, author, publisher, and founder of O'Reilly Media"
