Bringing Critical Perspective to the AI Conversation
Aminata speaks to educators, policymakers, technologists, and communities navigating the promise and peril of AI in public life. Her presentations combine academic rigor with the clarity that comes from having actually stood in a classroom.
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"The Post-Work Classroom" — Education in an Age of Intelligent Machines If AI displaces the kinds of work we currently educate children to perform, what is school actually for? This talk interrogates the economic assumptions baked into modern education and asks what a genuinely human-centered alternative might look like. Best for: Future of work audiences, workforce development, civic organizations
"Becoming Martian" — Identity, Transformation, and the Algorithmic Self A keynote-length exploration of how AI systems do not merely assist learning — they define it. Who gets to decide what learning looks like? What happens to children who do not fit the model? And what does it mean to resist transformation you did not choose? Best for: Keynote engagements, graduation addresses, leadership forums
"Optimized for What?" — Human Potential in the Age of AI The phrase "human potential" has an economic history that most people do not know. This talk traces that history from 19th-century industrial theory to modern ed-tech, asking: when we say we want to maximize potential, whose definition of potential are we using? Best for: Thought leadership forums, foundations, policy institutes