Introduction to Ethical & Fairness Issues in AI

Speaker:	Prof. Mordecai GOLIN
		Professor
		Department of Computer Science and Engineering
		Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Title:		"Introduction to Ethical & Fairness Issues in AI"

Date:		Monday, 29 April 2019

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theater F (near lift 25/26), 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 at
https://home.cse.ust.hk/~golin/Talks/Ethics_in_AI_Reading_List.html


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Biography:

Mordecai Golin is a currently a professor in the Department of Computer
Science & Engineering at HKUST. 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.