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SUMMARY:‘Responsible AI Futures’ Hybrid Seminar – Ananda Rutherford
DESCRIPTION:Do ‘Words Matter’ in Machine Learning?\n  \n\nBook your online ticket now!\n\nThis presentation will reflect on the distinctions between what is needed to produce equitable\, anti-racist information on artworks and what it is possible or desirable with the application of machine learning. What word choices in the cultural sector can or should ML be taught to make? Can machine learning be applied to address structural inequality and systemic bias within art historical and museological practice? What relationship should we be crafting between machine learning and the histories of art as presented through museum labels and interpretation? \nThe focus of this research was a dataset of texts from Tate’s Art and Artists online collection\, identified as biased in terms of language and interpretation. The research was conducted as part of the AHRC Towards a National Collection Programme\, on the Transforming Collections project. Reviewing the Tate texts against Hodan Warsame’s essay ‘Mechanisms and Tropes of Colonial Narratives’\, part of the pivotal publication Words Matter: An Unfinished Guide to Word Choices in the Cultural Sector (2018)\, alongside the development of an application to analyse object label texts revealed the need for deep contextual understanding\, both of art historical writing conventions and the artwork itself. \n\n\n\n\nBio\nAnanda Rutherford is a Research Fellow with UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute. Her research for the AHRC/TaNC funded Transforming Collections project explored the language of museum catalogue texts and the potential application of machine learning to evidence and problematise issues of colonialism and racial bias. She is also interested in ethics in practice at the intersection of academic research\, data and technology\, and GLAM and heritage organisations. Ananda is a former museum collections and documentation manager\, with a career focus on the digitisation and dissemination of collections information online and continues to work and consult in this area. \n\n\n\n\nRunning Order \n16.00 – Talk by Ananda Rutherford \n16.40 – Q&A \n17.00 – EndOnline: Zoom \nFor those joining online please visit the online event page for the Zoom joining link and password. \nFor inquiries about accessibility\, please contact the DI team at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk or visit the Access webpage for more information about the venue: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/venue-access/
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-ananda-rutherford
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:‘Responsible AI Futures’ Hybrid Seminar – Dr Claire Paterson-Young
DESCRIPTION:Ethical review to support Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) in policing: A preliminary study of West Midlands Police’s specialist data ethics review committee\n  \nBook your hybrid ticket now!\n\n\nThe deployment of AI by the police\, while promising more effective use of data for the prevention and detection of crime\, brings with it considerable threats of disproportionality and interference with fundamental rights. The West Midlands Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (WMOPCC) and West Midlands Police (WMP) Ethics Committee aims to bridge the gap between ethical reflection\, scientific rigour\, and a focus on human rights\, thus contributing to responsible AI in policing. This seminar explores findings from an interdisciplinary research project that examined the impact and influence of the Committee\, including: \n\nDeveloping an understanding within the police of key ethical\, scientific\, legal and operational issues for planning and implementation.\nEmbedding genuine representation from the community that the police serve in ethical oversight committees to ensure opportunities for transparent engagement.\nImportance of explaining clearly how AI will be used in policing\, so as to enable potential benefits\, risks/harms and proportionality to be assessed in the same conversation.\nNeed for Police forces\, Police and Crime Commissioners and national bodies embarking on AI-driven policing to address the ethical\, legal and technical questions raised by policing AI\, such as reconciling privacy and security priorities relevant to the assessment of the proportionality of using suspect data.\n\n\n\n\n\nBio\nClaire Paterson-Young (BA MSc PhD) is an Associate Professor & Research Leader at the Institute for Social Innovation and Impact (ISII). Claire’s current major research projects include AI in Law Enforcement (RAI-UK funded 4-year interdisciplinary project titled ‘PROBabLE Futures – Probabilistic AI Systems in Law Enforcement Futures’). Claire has over 15 years practice and management experience in safeguarding\, child sexual exploitation\, trafficking\, sexual violence\, youth and restorative justice. Claire is Chair of the University of Northampton Research Ethics Committee and a serving member of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Ethics Committee. She formerly served as a member of the Health and Research Association Research Ethics Committee. She is a trustee of the National Association for Youth Justice (NAYJ)\, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for the encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Claire is a Research Affiliate at Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre. She has held a Visiting Fellowship position at Binus University (Indonesia) and Associate Fellowship position at Children and Young People Centre for Justice (Scotland). \nRunning Order \n16.00 – Talk by Claire Paterson-Young \n16.40 – Q&A \n17.00 – End \nIn-person: Inspace\, 1 Crichton St\, Newington\, Edinburgh EH8 9AB\nOnline: Zoom \nPlease note limited seats are available at Inspace for in-person audiences\, so please book tickets in advance. For those joining online please visit the online event page for the Zoom joining link and password. \nFor inquiries about accessibility\, please contact the DI team at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk or visit the Access webpage for more information about the venue: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/venue-access/
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-dr-claire-paterson-young
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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