Join us in exploring the intersections and impact of AI, Health, and Gender!
The Pulse of Ethical Machine Learning in Health (Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi )
Machine learning in health has made impressive progress in recent years, powered by an increasing availability of health-related data and high-capacity models. While many models in health now perform at or above humans in a range of tasks across the human lifespan, models also learn societal biases and may replicate or expand them. In this talk, Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi will focus on the need for machine learning researchers and model developers to create robust models that can be ethically deployed in health settings, and beyond. Dr. Ghassemi’s talk will span issues in data collection, outcome definition, algorithm development, and deployment considerations.
AI and Human Rights in Technofascist Times (Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio)
Drawing on her recent book, Counting Feminicide (MIT Press, 2024), D’Ignazio will contextualize the rise of “technofascism” – the collusion of large technology firms with authoritarian and anti-democratic political agendas – as well as describe several cases of AI, data and technology in the service of human rights, gender equality and multiracial democracy.
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