General Event
Algorithmic Bias Panel Discussion
DATE: Thu, November 4, 2021 - 12:00 pm
LOCATION: Please register to receive the Zoom link
DETAILS
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This Panel Discussion on Algorithmic Bias is the third and final installment of "Building an Ethical Algorithmic World: A 3-Part Series."
Interested in the ethics of algorithms? Concerned with the current biases within algorithms and the dangers these biases pose to particular groups of people (e.g. women and darker-skinned people)? Join us in this three-part Algorithmic Bias event to delve deeper into this issue. First watch a free screening of “Coded Bias”, then join a live Q&A session with the film’s director Shalini Kantayya. Finally, attend a panel discussion with experts Marc-Antoine Dilhac (Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory), Aline Talhouk (Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, UBC), Mijung Park (Canada CIFAR AI Chair), and Blaise Agüera y Arcas (VP and Research Fellow, Google Research); moderated by Azim Shariff (Associate Professor and Research Chair, Psychology, UBC).
About the Panel:
This panel event will provide a high-level discussion on algorithmic bias, particularly from a Canadian perspective. Earlier in the week we will be doing a screening of Coded Bias followed by a Q&A with the director as a way to engage the community with a topic that is not only extremely prevalent to our times, but that has received intrigue from a large range of individuals. The panel will then take that general topic of algorithmic bias and speak of it at a high level, delving into the realities that industry and the academic community are facing and the ethical implications that go along with it. We are fortunate to have expert panelists providing perspectives from health and privacy, industry, political philosophy, and privacy-preserving machine learning.
Panelists:
Marc-Antoine Dilhac (Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory)
Aline Talhouk (Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, UBC)
Mijung Park (Canada CIFAR AI Chair)
Blaise Agüera y Arcas (VP and Research Fellow, Google Research)
Moderated by:
Azim Shariff (Associate Professor and Research Chair, Psychology, UBC).
Hosted by the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Health Cluster Alliance
Please register for this event here.