Danaë Metaxa: Algorithms Change How We Think About the World and Ourselves
January 4th, 2021
The Stanford Ph.D student and first-generation American examines algorithmic representation and its impact on our sense...
Ethics and Justice
Machine Learning
Cody Coleman: Lowering Machine Learning’s Barriers To Help People Tackle Real Problems
January 4th, 2021
This Stanford Ph.D. candidate's low-income upbringing inspired his focus — democratizing AI.
Ethics and Justice
Machine Learning
Hong Qu: Shining a Headlight on AI Blindspots
December 3rd, 2020
The HAI Fellow learned firsthand how artificial intelligence damages civil society. He proposes a solution.
Ethics and Justice
Renée DiResta: How to Beat Bad Information
December 3rd, 2020
Inadvertent misinformation and outright disinformation have become a scourge on American discourse, but those committed...
Ethics and Justice
Law, Regulation, and Policy
Whose History? AI Uncovers Who Gets Attention in High School Textbooks
November 17th, 2020
Natural language processing reveals huge differences in how Texas history textbooks treat men, women, and people of...
Education
Ethics and Justice
Language Processing
Developing Better, Less-Biased Facial Recognition Technology
November 9th, 2020
Researchers discuss possible ways to regulate, improve this highly contentious technology during a HAI workshop.
Ethics and Justice
Machine Learning
A Legal Approach to “Affirmative Algorithms”
November 9th, 2020
Solutions to fix algorithmic bias could collide with law. Two scholars propose a solution.
Ethics and Justice
Law, Regulation, and Policy
When Algorithmic Fairness Fixes Fail: The Case for Keeping Humans in the Loop
November 2nd, 2020
Attempts to fix clinical prediction algorithms to make them fair also make them less accurate.
Ethics and Justice
Healthcare
Machine Learning
Is GPT-3 Intelligent? A Directors' Conversation with Oren Etzioni
October 1st, 2020
The Allen Institute CEO and computer scientist talks GPT-3's capabilities and limitations, a better AI Turing test, and...
Automation and Robotics
Design and Human-Computer Interaction
Ethics and Justice
Machine Learning