Josie Williams

Josie Williams is a creative technologist, digital artist, and founder of Algorithmic Equity, an interactive digital platform that empowers any New Yorker to report, record, or respond to law enforcement behavior. While completing her Computer Science degree at NYU, she conducted research at NYU Langone on algorithmic bias in health care. She has presented her research on bias in chronic kidney disease prediction modeling at NeurIPS’s Fair Health in ML workshop in Vancouver and NYC Media Lab’s Summit in 2019. In 2020, she participated in Afrotectopia’s Imagineer Fellowship and joined the NEW INC Creative Science track. She is also the Black Public Media NCU 2021 Fellow which supports her project, Ancestral Archives, a collection of chatbots modeled after historically-significant BIPOC leaders. Currently, she is an MFA at Stony Brook University where she is also participating in a research fellowship with Stephanie Dinkins at the Future Histories Studio. Her primary interests revolve around artificial intelligence, data equity, cultivating Black radical imagination, and creating sentient-centered AI.

Projects:

• AI.Assembly CoLAB
• Open Access: AI.Assembly