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On December 12 2020, Atoosa Kasirzadeh and Andrew Smart will present their paper ‘A critique of the use of counterfactuals in ethical machine learning’ at the Virtual NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Causality and Interpretability.
Read MoreCierra Robson (Harvard University) gave the last HMI DAIS Seminar of the year. Click through for more information.
Read MoreAtoosa Kasirzadeh was recently chosen for a competitive 5-month research position with DeepMind for Google's Ethical AI team in London (UK) during 2021 to work on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Read MoreThe User Experience Professional Association (UXPA) hosted a two-part book club webinar for Jenny Davis' book "How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things."
Read MoreThis paper is about why we find it problematic to appeal to certain kinds of statistical or profiling evidence when making decisions about individuals. I argue for a novel solution: the problem has to do with the causal information carried by the evidence. We object to evidence that is merely accidental in that it does not carry appropriate causal information pertinent to the decision.
Read MoreThis online seminar was co-hosted by HMI and the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. The seminar was given by Dr Jake Goldenfein, Dr Sebastian Benthall, Associate Professor Tatiana Cutts and Professor Seth Lazar. Click through for more information.
Read MoreAtoosa Kasirzadeh, Will Bateman and Tiberio Caetano joined a panel of leading interdisciplinary experts to explore the complex legal and ethical challenges AI and automated decision-making present to industry, government and the legal profession. Click through for more information.
Read MoreIn this In Conversation event, Dr Claire Benn joined Dr Jason Ketter to explore the sampling of ethical issues with which AI is infused. Dr Benn explains what is AI, whether we should be worried about, the importance of ethical design, and how this might call for us to alter how we understand our own morality. Watch here or click through for more information.
Read MoreIn this interview, Claire Benn discussed the ethics of facial recognition, from the trends we have seen across the world concerning the development and deployment of facial recognition to the future role facial recognition might play here in Australia. Beginning with the core components of all facial recognition, Dr Benn explores the dangers and opportunities facial recognition presents when it goes right and when it goes wrong.
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