Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 182.
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        Date: 2023-09-01 11:17:31+00:00
        From: Shipp, Kayla <kayla.shipp@yale.edu>
        Subject: "Automating Injustice" with Dr. Abeba Birhane

Monday, September 11 at 3:00 p.m. EST for a virtual talk on "Automating
Injustice" as part of our ongoing series on essential perspectives in
ethical AI innovation!Later in the fall, we’ll also hear from Michael
Running Wolf about his experience using AI to reclaim indigenous languages.

Please register via Eventbrite
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-talk-automating-injustice-
tickets-707965603177?aff=oddtdtcreator>to
attend and see below for more details.


ABOUT THE TALK

In her virtual presentation, Dr. Abeba Birhane will address the ways
that individuals and groups at the margins of society pay the highest
price when AI systems fail, while the most privileged and powerful
corporations benefit.

Complex adaptive systems (e.g., human behaviour and social systems) are
inherently dynamic, messy, ambiguous, incompressible, non-determinable,
and non-predictable. Due to their incompressibility, neither datasets
nor models can capture complex systems in their entirety. Instead, large
scale datasets and predictive models pick up societal and historical
stereotypes and injustices and are marked with various failures. Yet
discussions of AI ethics tend to be abstract, far-fetched, sci-fi based,
and devoid of current concrete realities.

In this talk, Dr. Birhane will: i) emphasise the challenges of modelling
complex behaviour, ii) argue that equitable algorithmic systems need
looking beyond technical solutions and require broader structural
rethinking, and iii) highlight that visions of alternative realities
need to be informed by and grounded in current realities.

/Please note that this presentation engages with sensitive topics, such
as visual examples of algorithmic racism./

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist researching human behaviour,
social systems, and responsible and ethical Artificial Intelligence. Her
interdisciplinary research sits at the intersections of embodied
cognitive science, complexity science, critical data and algorithm
studies, and afro-feminist theories. Her work includes audits of
computational models and large scale datasets. Birhane is a Senior
Advisor, AI accountability at Mozilla Foundation and an Adjunct
Assistant professor at the school of computer science and statistics at
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Kayla Shipp, PhD (/she/they/)
Digital Humanities Program Manager
Franke Family Digital Humanities Lab
Yale Library
203.436.1003 | kayla.shipp@yale.edu



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