Reimagining the Future: How Black Innovators Are Using AI to Advance Social Justice
Training overview
AI doesn't just automate what exists it can also help us imagine entirely new futures. In this keynote, Erin spotlights Black innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are leveraging AI to tackle social challenges, from healthcare disparities and education access to economic inequality and representation in media.
Rather than treating AI as a purely technical tool, Erin reframes it as a cultural and moral choice: Who designs it? Who benefits? Who is harmed? Through real-world examples and accessible storytelling, she shows how Black leadership in AI is opening up new possibilities for justice-oriented innovation and what it will take for institutions to support that work at scale.
Ideal For
- Social impact and philanthropy events
- Innovation, product, and strategy offsites
- Nonprofits, foundations, and civic tech communities
- Higher education, HBCUs, and student leadership programs
Key takeaways
See how AI is being used today to address systemic inequities in healthcare education finance and public policy.
Learn how culturally informed tools like ChatBlackGPT are redefining what "responsible AI" looks like in practice.
Explore frameworks for evaluating whether AI projects align with social justice goals not just efficiency or profit.
Discover ways non-technical leaders (educators executives funders organizers) can play a meaningful role in shaping ethical AI.
Leave inspired to see technology as a force for community power narrative change and liberation not just automation.
Erin Reddick
Founder and CEO of ChatBlackGPT, AI Cultural Technologist
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