Sarah W.

Newman


I am Director of Art & Education at metaLAB at Harvard and Co-Founder of the The Data Nutrition Project. My work explores the social and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence through research and teaching.

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Projects:

AI Pedagogy Project
Public AI Summit
Data Nutrition Project
Workshops

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I speak about the social and cultural implications of AI and other emerging technologies, data transparency, and the future of education. For more information about public speaking engagements, please contact sarahnewmanstudio (at) gmail.com

Here is a short interview about The Future of Secrets.



SELECT TALKS


2025


“A Bug in the System? Rethinking Education in the Age of AI” (Keynote), Fairbanks Museum, VT, forthcoming

“Embracing AI: Challenges and Opportunities in Education” (Keynote), Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

“The Future of Secrets,” Data|Art Symposium, Harvard University

“AI, Education, and World Readiness,” UERU Annual Meeting,  Harvard University

“Bringing Humanities Perspectives to AI,” AI Symposium, University of North Dakota


2024


“AI vs Academic Integrity: From Bans to Best Practices,” AI x Education, virtual

“AI & Pedagogy” Symposium for Clinical Staff, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, US

“Creative & Critical Approaches to AI in Education,” Uppsala University, Sweden

Media Literacy & AI” Panel, Harvard Graduate School of Education

“Creative & Critical Approaches to AI in Education,” CUNY, Sandberg College, Emerson College

“The AI Pedagogy Project,” metaLAB launch, Basel, Switzerland

Facing this Moment Critically & Creatively: AI Pitfalls & Opportunities for Educators” (Keynote), Valencia, Spain


2023


“The AI Pedagogy Project,” Film University, Berlin

“Interrogating AI Data Quality,” Data Nutrition Project, Mozilla Data Futures Lab

“The AI Pedagogy Project,” AI & Education Conference, Harvard Business School


2022


Commissioner Panel, UERU National Conference, Boyer Commission, Washington DC

2020


“The Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence” (Keynote), CII Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio

“Bias In: Bias Out: Building Responsible AI” Case DRIVE/2020

“Bias In, Bias Out: Building Responsible AI” Panel, Open Government Partnership Summit, Ottawa, Canada;

“Navigating the Moral Labyrinth: Intersections of Philosophy, AI, and Art” Carr Center, Harvard Kennedy School

2019


“Experimental Pedagogies” Summit on Decolonizing AI and the Future of Art, New Museum, NYC

“The Data Nutrition Project” EqualAI, South by Southwest

“Understanding Ourselves & AI through Art,” Digital Cultures Conference, Warsaw, Poland

“AI & Art” Presentation, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany


2018


“AI Creativity, Neuroscience, and the Law,” Panel, South by Southwest, Austin, TX

“SXSW Artists in Dialogue”, South by Southwest, Austin, TX

2017


“MACHINE EXPERIENCE” at MIT Open Docs Lab, Cambridge, MA

“The Future of Secrets,” at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

“Dialogues with Data,” Potsdam University, Germany