Introduction to Ethical & Fairness Issues in AI

Date: 13 February 2019 (Wednesday)
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: LTC
Title: Introduction to Ethical & Fairness Issues in AI
Speaker: Prof. Mordecai Golin, Professor, CSE HKUST

Abstract:

This talk provides a quick and dirty introduction to some issues of Ethics and Fairness that arise with the use of of AI and, in particular, machine learning. It briefly covers a large range of topics,spanning from AI imposed structural unemployment to ethical considerations in the design of autonomous vehicles but the majority of the talk will focus on fairness and biases in Machine Learning.

The presentation is mostly anecdotal with very little math.

A follow-up reading list is available: Additional Reading List for Ethics in AI

Biography:

After receiving his doctorate from Princeton University in 1990, Prof. Golin worked as a researcher in the Projet Algorithmes of the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in Rocquencourt, France before arriving at HKUST in 1993. Since then, he has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Waterloo, the MADALGO Center for Massive Data Algorithms, the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, INRIA-Sophia, AT&T Labs-Research, and DIMACS. In addition, he served as the HKUST Associate Vice-President for Postgraduate Studies from 2011-2014.