February 12, 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Technologist, writer, poet, and Jack Straw Writers Program alum Shankar Narayan continues our 2026 series of events featuring Jack Straw Writers in partnership with Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau. Join us in person, or stream live via YouTube or Facebook.
From hiring to housing, policing to sentencing, artificial intelligence and data-driven systems are increasingly shaping our civil rights—often in invisible ways. Far from being neutral, these technologies are amplifying bias, and the Big Tech companies that build them are impacting, and often harming, democracy, equity, and the environment.
In this talk, technologist and writer Shankar Narayan explores how AI and Big Tech are reshaping our rights today—including historical and current risks to equity and justice, and opportunities for communities to build a more just technological future.
