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How Can We Involve People in AI Decision-Making? Towards Effective Participatory AI Designs

Series: Department Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Vijay Keswani, Duke University

Date/Time: Dec 05 10:00:00

Location: CSA Auditorium, (Room No. 104, Ground Floor)

Abstract:
Abstract: The expanding capabilities of AI come with a surge in the reports of societal and personal harms related to its use. Examples range from systemic biases in AI decision-aid tools in healthcare and policing to stereotype propagation in AI-based search and translation tools. Technical research on mitigating such harms forward certain solutions to ensure that AI behavior is aligned with ethical norms and values. Yet, this research leaves unanswered the question of

Speaker Bio:
Vijay Keswani is a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University. His research interests center around community-focused AI development and the ethics of data and technology. His work leverages tools from various disciplines to build robust AI models, combining computational and statistical learning mechanisms with methods from law, philosophy, psychology, and economics. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2023. While at Yale, he was a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project during 2022-2023 and a 2022 Policy Fellow at the Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies.

Host Faculty: R Govindarajan