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“Challenges and Frontiers in Deploying Transparent Machine Learning” Explainable machine learning offers the potential to provide stakeholders with insights into model behavior, yet there is little understanding of how organizations […]
Su Lin Blodgett, a postdoctoral researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research Montréal, will deliver a talk as part of CSRAI’s Young Achievers Symposium. […]
“Mind the Gap: From Predictions to ML-Informed Decisions” Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used to support decision-making in many organizational settings. However, there is currently a gap between the […]
André Brock is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media & Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Brock is one of the preeminent scholars of Black […]
Crystal Lee is a PhD candidate at MIT and a Senior Fellow in Responsible Computer Science at Mozilla. Her work investigates what she calls the “life-cycle of data representations,” or […]
Mark Díaz is a research scientist with the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google. His primary research probes the origins of social bias in data sets and its influence on […]
Karrie G. Karahalios is a Professor of Computer Science, a Co-director of the Center for Just Infrastructures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Senior Research Scientist at […]
The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it is on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure “almost everyone in […]
By Drew HarwellAmelia Gibson and Rua Williams explore academic scholarship and public discussion around disability access and accessibility and problematize the idea that disabled people truly have access to technology in contexts where they do not control technology.
Hector Beltran presents the phenomena of hacking and the hackathon. It also addresses issues of access and equity in how racialized, gendered, classed, or other marginalized social groups can undertake hacking or how they are treated within hacking spaces.
For the tech boom to be just, it must center the voices of workers.