Past Event
Seminar

AI Cyber Lunch: Elissa Redmiles on "Learning from the People"

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

When and how can we use the perceptions of lay people to evaluate and improve the fairness of features used in machine learning classifiers?

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Elissa Redmiles, Faculty Member and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and a Visiting Scholar at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Redmiles will give a talk entitled, "Learning from the People: Using People's Perceptions to Evaluate AI Fairness."

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Courtesy of Elissa Redmiles

Speaker

Speaker

Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles is a faculty member and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and a Visiting Scholar at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University for the '22-'23 academic year. She uses computational, economic, and social science methods to understand people's digital safety & ethics decision-making processes and remedy inequities in those processes. Her work has been recognized with multiple paper awards at USENIX Security, ACM CCS, ACM CHI, and ACM EAAMO and has been featured in popular press publications such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, and Wired