ethics of AI
SERIES

Conversation

DATE & TIME

Tuesday, 12 March 2019
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEDT

 

LOCATION

The Ethics Centre
Lvl 1,Legion House
161 Castlereagh St
Sydney

Can we trust AI to make our decisions? (Sydney)

Already we’re outsourcing many of our key business decisions to Artificial Intelligence – from data extraction to retail analysis to recruitment. Some we’re aware of, others may surprise you.

As organisations that care about raising the standards of business, how can we be sure of the ethical integrity of the technologies we employ?

The increased use of AI has real potential to further embed biases – notably age, gender and race – within the systems we rely on. Between 2014 and 2017 Amazon tried to build an algorithmic system to analyze resumes and suggest the best hires. An anonymous Amazon employee called it the “holy grail” if it actually worked.

But it didn’t. After the company trained the algorithm on 10 years of its own hiring data, the algorithm reportedly became biased against female applicants. The word “women,” like in women’s sports, would cause the algorithm to specifically rank applicants lower. After Amazon engineers attempted to fix that problem, the algorithm still wasn’t up to snuff and the project was ended.

What responsibilities do organisations have for the ethical integrity of the technologies they employ? And how might these obligations be discharged?

Speakers

Sam-Garner

Sam Garner

Sam is responsible for delivering one of Australia’s market leading and largest law student intakes, including firm-wide selection processes for vacation clerks and graduate hires for King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). She also looks after the development and management of KWM Graduate Education Program, as well as assisting practice groups with rotations, resource planning and productivity.

Tiberio Caetano

Tiberio Caetano

Tiberio has spent the last 20 years working on machine learning in numerous roles as a student, researcher, academic, entrepreneur and practitioner; collaborating with individuals and organisations across the world. He believes the path to a more ethical world is through a deeper understanding of the cause and effect relationships between actions and wellbeing.

Hilary Cinis

Hilary Cinis

Hilary Cinis has been in the emerging technology innovation sector as a designer and leader for nearly two decades. Her strengths include the application of human centred design and systems thinking to software development and business goals.

Dr Maria Milosavljevic

Maria is the inaugural Chief Data Officer for Department of Human Services (DHS). She’s responsible for defining and implementing the data and analytics strategy – including appropriate data management, use and innovation. She is also an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, and Chair of the Australian Computer Society Cyber Security Committee.

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Who is it for?


  • ALLIANCE MEMBERS
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What you'll take away


  • 01A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO EMBED VALUES & PRINCIPLES
  • 02AN UNDERSTANDING OF ETHICS AND ETHICAL ISSUES YOU FACE AT WORK
  • 03CASE STUDIES OF BEST PRACTICE