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Tina Eliassi-Rad: Just Machine Learning
In this talk, I will discuss current tasks, experiences, and performance measures as they pertain to fairness in machine learning. The most popular task thus far has been risk assessment. Most human decision-makers seem to use risk estimates for efficiency purposes and not to make fairer decisions. The task of risk assessment seems to enable efficiency instead of fairness. I will present an alternative task definition whose goal is to provide more context to the human decision-maker. I will discuss our null model for fairness and demonstrate how to use deviations from this null model to measure favoritism and prejudice in data.
Rayid Ghani: Machine Learning for Social Good
Rayid Ghani was Chief Scientist of 2012 Obama Campaign. He is presently Distinguished Career Professor in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University.
Megan Finn: We Are All Well
When an earthquake happens in California today, residents may turn to Twitter for government bulletins and the latest news, check Facebook for updates from friends and family, look to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for online maps that show the quake's epicenter, and hope to count on help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This information order articulates a particular epistemic experience of earthquake...