Conference on "Ethical Challenges in AI"

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Conference by Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates from the Institute for Experiential AI de la Northeastern University.

Friday, 25th March 2022, from 11am to 1pm
Attendance may be face-to-face (limited capacity) or on-line via GoogleMeet
Location: Conference Room, Vertex building - UPC (-1 floor)

 

In the first part we cover five current specific challenges through examples:

  • discrimination (e.g., facial recognition, justice, sharing economy, language models);
  • phrenology (e.g., biometric based predictions);
  • unfair digital commerce (e.g., exposure and popularity bias);
  • stupid models (e.g., Signal, minimal adversarial AI) and
  • indiscriminate use of computing resources (e.g., large language models).

These examples do have a personal bias but set the context for the second part where we address four generic challenges:

  • too many principles (e.g., principles vs. techniques);
  • cultural differences;
  • regulation and
  • our cognitive biases.

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