What is socially responsible AI?

On this episode, it’s all about ethics in AI! We’ll be sharing different stories about how AI is being used, what the pitfalls are, and who in the field is trying to make changes.  We chat to the next generation of AI experts to understand how their institutions are preparing them(or not) to use AI ethically. Surya Mattu, a data scientist who was part of the Pulitzer nominated Propublica investigation “Machine Bias”, talks to us about the report that jumpstarted a global conversation. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing (Machine Bias) To understand the current landscape of Ethics and AI we spoke to one of the most prominent advocates for inclusion and diversity in the field, Dr. Timnit Gebru. Dr. Gebru is a Research Scientist in the Ethical AI team at Google and founder of Black in AI (@black_in_ai). How has our world has come to associate the assistance of AI with women? Dr. Myriam Sweeney, assistant professor of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama helps us navigate this. Hear a reenactment of the 1920’s play Rossum’s Universal Robot by Czech playwright Karel Capek, who coined the term robot(acted by Morgan Sweeney and Matt Goldberg). Lastly, Dr. Kirk Bansak highlights the possibilities using of AI for good, including to help place refugees in the best possible host communities. AI guides: https://www.wired.com/story/guide-artificial-intelligence/ https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-machine-learning-deep-learning-explained-simply-7b553da5b960