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Alli Finn

Alli Finn is an experienced organizer, policy advocate, and movement researcher rooted in NYC, focused on AI, data centers, and state and corporate surveillance. Alli leads the AI Now Institute's partnerships work, equipping communities, organizers, and policymakers to challenge the negative impacts of AI infrastructure and systems on our work, health, rights, and daily lives. Alli also helps steward a nationwide network of local and state groups resisting data center expansion. 


Alli came to tech justice work through a decade of fighting for immigrant and worker rights, through deportation defense, frontline casework, and national advocacy. They led research and organizing against ICE surveillance with the Immigrant Defense Project and Surveillance Resistance Lab, campaigned against corporate tech power with Kairos, and managed the casework department at a migrant domestic workers’ center in Lebanon. Alli holds an M.A. in Sociology from the American University of Beirut and is currently a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest.

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Story Forum: Exploring Art and Innovation - ON DEMAND

Story Forum: Exploring Art and Innovation - ON DEMAND

Together with creators, educators, industry leaders, and technologists, we explored the creative technologies that are impacting storytelling and how today’s artists are evolving. Now you can experience it all on-demand for free.
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Tackling the Ethics of AI Through the Making of GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Part 1

With: Alix Dunn and 5 more
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Tackling the Ethics of AI Through the Making of GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Part 1

With: Alix Dunn, Alli Finn, Johnathan Flowers, Thema Monroe-White, Tiera Tanksley and Valerie Veatch
In the first of two Story Forum sessions on the film, Veatch presents a deep-dive into the making of her documentary as well as the technology’s implications with regards to racial discrimination and climate devastation. During this session, Veatch leads two panel discussions with five participants from the documentary: Thema Monroe-White, Tiera Tanksley, Johnathan Flowers, Alli Finn, and Alix Dunn. These conversations offer insight into finding and shaping your story with your documentary participants, and prove essential for those interested in the systems surrounding the development of AI.
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