“Stop Scraping the Past: Storytelling, Bias, and the Future of Education in the Age of AI – a Criminologist’s Perspective” a talk by Lene Hansen

Join us for a thought-provoking talk by Lene Hansen, Jesus College Alumna, international athlete and author of “Where’s the Harm? An Alternative Introduction to Criminology”. During the talk, she’ll explore the rise of the anti-textbook exploring a necessary shift in education for the age of AI. After the talk, there will also be a networking reception.

In a highly personal work, Lene contrasts the limits of traditional textbooks with the anti-textbook approach, which champions storytelling, expansive thinking, and progressive concepts, she will also discuss why AI needs new knowledge to counter deep-seated biases (Racial, Gender, Social) that are embedded in current knowledge and scraped by Large Language Models (LLMs).

The anti-textbook is a fascinating solution—a way to inject new, open-minded thinking into the digital ecosystem.

With AI influencing education, we urgently need to make progressive content available online. This talk addresses how we can future-proof knowledge and explore new channels to share this essential material.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Booking and Registration

Please reserve your spot here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/wheres-the-harm-criminology-and-the-rise-of-the-anti-textbook-a-talk-by-lene-hansen

About The Speaker

Crime is the central theme of Lene Hansen’s life, and she had a front row seat to both interpersonal and political crime from an early age. In an ongoing attempt to understand these experiences, she has pursued them through three degrees so far (psychology, criminology and law). She is working on the fourth, with plans for the fifth. She is also known for her bull-headed persistence.

Lene has worked in regulation, litigation and regulatory technology for almost thirty years, in a career that has spanned over twenty countries. The overlap of technology and crime has been her focus since the beginning of her academic and professional life. This has led to her involvement in developing, using, and lecturing internationally on regulatory technology, specifically in relation to white-collar crime and fraud. However, she still struggles to set up the hotspot on her phone.

In her spare time, Lene enjoys wild swimming, nursing orphan properties back to life, and is a passionate supporter of early careers training, all forms of rowing, and marine animals. She talks at schools and takes pride in being called the ‘Shark Lady’ in public by small children.