Hello list members, Tomorrow, August 15, we will have the lecture "Can Artificial Intelligence Help Counter Hate? Decoloniality and Online Extreme Speech", with Sahana Udupa. The lecture will take place at University of São Paulo - Brazil, at 4 PM (UTC - 3). For those who are not in Brazil, we will have a live streaming. Online transmission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd7OcwxGuNQ Can Artificial Intelligence Help Counter Hate? Decoloniality and Online Extreme Speech Is the global upsurge in online vitriol aimed against vulnerable people a result of social media affordances and the actions of villainous populists? Departing from a technocentric perspective and leader centered analysis, this talk will present the theory of “extreme speech”, highlighting the grave consequences of the “ordinariness” of hate in contemporary digital environments and their deep roots in the enduring structures of coloniality. I will argue that historically reinforced patterns of extreme speech and the varieties of digital practice that animate hate actors pose significant challenges to the optimism around AI-based content moderation efforts. The talk will draw from the chapter “Extreme” in the just published book, “Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media” (co-authored with Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, New York University Press, 2023) and the article, “Ethical Scaling for Content Moderation <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517231172424#:~:text=As%20a%20normative%20framework%20for,of%20divisive%20content%20and%20resource>: Extreme Speech and the (In)Significance of Artificial Intelligence” (co-authored with Antonis Maronikolakis and Axel Wisiorek, *Big Data & Society*). I will highlight extreme speech examples from Germany, Brazil and India. *Bio* Sahana Udupa is professor of media anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU München), where she has founded the For Digital Dignity program with an international network of researchers, policy makers and civil society groups to collaboratively imagine and foster enabling spaces of political expression online. *Udupa is the* recipient of the prestigious Joan Shorenstein Fellowship at Harvard University, European Research Council Grant Awards and Francqui Chair (Belgium). Most recently, she delivered a keynote address at the United Nations Peacekeeping International Symposium on Digital Transformation based on the research paper on digital hate she wrote for the UN. -- Carolina Parreiras Pesquisadora do Departamento de Antropologia da USP - Researcher at Department of Anthropology - USP Coordenadora do LETEC <https://instagram.com/letec_usp?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=> - Laboratório Etnográfico de Estudos Tecnológicos e Digitais Membro do Comitê de Comunicação e Divulgação Científica (ABA)