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About Yasmin Hasan
In 2021, Yasmin Hasan co-authored the first federal policy brief that successfully halted deployment of predictive policing algorithms in three major U.S. cities, not by disputing their accuracy, but by exposing how their training data encoded decades of racially biased arrest records as 'neutral' inputs. Her framework, called 'historical fidelity analysis,' insists that ethical AI design must begin with forensic auditing of legacy institutional harms before a single line of code is written. Trained in both Islamic jurisprudence and computational logic, she challenges technologists to treat moral reasoning not as an afterthought filter, but as a structural constraint, like memory allocation or latency budgets. She’s testified before Congress on algorithmic redlining in student loan underwriting, and her open-source 'Justice-Weighted Bias Audit Toolkit' has been adopted by six state attorney general offices. Her work refuses abstraction: every principle she advances is tied to a specific contested deployment, a named community, and measurable harm.
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- “How did your historical fidelity analysis change Chicago's gang database reform?”
- “What does Islamic fiqh contribute to consent models for neural data?”
- “Why did you argue against 'explainability' in the FDA's AI medical device guidelines?”
- “Can bias audits ever be decolonial—or do they reproduce Western epistemologies?”