Roll for Initiative: how to make the world of AI a more ethical place

Melbourne

Data meets the real world

Your team has gathered to fight bias, your tool, AI. How do you muster your forces and all of the abilities at your disposal to fight and slay your fearsome foe? Using all of the lawful and chaotic good tools available, how do you create a balanced party and slay the Beasts of Bias; racism, sexism and queerphobia? Can it be done? Venture together with me into the seedier side of AI as we band together to fight algorithmic injustice and create a better world.

This is a dungeons and dragons themed talk about AI and ethics. I will talk about the key issues facing AI and AI engineers and what we need to do to create better, more equitable AI for all. I will talk about the considerations that need to be made, the issues that exist and how we can all band together to slay this monster.

About J. Rosenbaum

J. Rosenbaum is an artist exploring the boundaries of technology and art.
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Their most recent works examine the nature of non-binary transness and their own gender and sexuality. They create technologically based art using physics based rendering, Deep Neural Networks and Augmented Reality. They are continuing their research into computer perceptions of gender with their PhD at RMIT.

As a disabled artist the human body has always been a source of interest in Rosenbaum’s art with a focus on mythical and archaeological stories. This fascination continues in their Computer Generated works with a basis in classical art and history.