Esha Bhandari

Esha Bhandari, Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, explores the pressing ethical implications of AI. She highlights current civil liberties threats posed by automated systems and the urgent need for better oversight. Discussing algorithmic biases in governance, she emphasizes how they can affect fairness and transparency in crucial areas like criminal justice. Bhandari argues for collaborative regulations to protect privacy in the age of pervasive data collection and warns against the dangers of surveillance technologies.