The future of artificial intelligence for social good

Tuesday 5 April 2022, 08:45 to 10:00

Place
En ligne
Les billets virtuels donnent accès aux conférences en rediffusion à partir du lendemain
Room
Salle Coveo (+Diffusion Salle Desjardins)

The Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) industry has powered a futuristic reality of self-driving cars and voice assistants to help us with almost any need.  However, the A.I. Industry has also created systematic challenges.  For instance, while it has led to platforms where workers label data to improve machine learning algorithms, my research has uncovered that these workers earn less than minimum wage.  We are also seeing the surge of A.I. algorithms that privilege certain populations and racially exclude others.  If we were able to fix these challenges we could create greater societal justice and enable A.I. that better addresses people’s needs, especially groups we have traditionally excluded.

Saiph Savage
Saiph Savage
Director Civic A.I. Lab
Northeastern University & UNAM
Saiph Savage is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the Khoury…
Saiph Savage is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and also research collaborator of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in its Civic Innovation lab, where she conducts research in the intersection of Human Computer Interaction, A.I., and Civic Technology. She is one of the 35 Innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review, a Google Anita Borg Scholarship recipient, and a fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Her work has been covered in the BBC, Deutsche Welle, the Economist, and the New York Times, as well as published in top venues such as ACM CHI, CSCW, and the Web Conference, where she has also won honorable mention awards. Dr. Savage has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the United Nations, industry, and has also formalized new collaborations with Federal and local Governments where she is driving them to adopt Human Centered Design and A.I. to deliver better experiences and government services to citizens. Dr. Savage students have obtained fellowships and internships in industry (Facebook Research, Twitch Research, Twitter, Snap, and Microsoft Research) as well as academia (Oxford Internet Institute). Saiph holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Dr. Savage has also worked at the University of Washington, and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Additionally, Dr. Savage has been a tech worker at Microsoft Bing, Intel Labs, and a crowd research worker at Stanford.