Introduction to Ethical & Fairness Issues in AI

Date: 28 October 2019 (Monday)
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: LTJ
Title: Introduction to Ethical & Fairness Issues in AI
Speaker: Dr. Cindy Li, Senior Lecturer, CSE HKUST

About the Talk:

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.

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

Special thanks to Prof. Mordecai Golin who kindly provides template and resources for the talk.

Speaker:

After receiving her doctorate from HKUST in 2005, Dr. Cindy LI worked in CSE. She's now the senior lecturer in the department, mainly focused on teaching, UG student administraiton and advising, and education innovation.