The advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies continues to open up a world of new opportunities and abilities across multiple industries. Yet, along with new capabilities comes a new set of responsibilities for those who employ AI and ML.
That’s according to Christine Meinders, founder of Feminist.AI, an endeavor created to make AI for everyone, especially when it comes to amplifying underserved and unheard voices.
At the Nov. 10 SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit, presented by Women in Technology Hollywood (WiTH), Meinders will detail the social implications of emerging technologies, and how designers can imagine an alternative process and user experience for creating AI/ML products to include and credit more voices.
By pairing the social and technical at the beginning, the design tool and methodology the Feminist.AI project poieto acknowledges bias in every step of development. Additionally, poieto challenges technical allowances to provide for priorities like privacy and consent, a nuanced data-sharing model, and attribution.
Additionally at the event, Feminist.AI members will discuss previous projects, highlighting specific socio-technical design approaches; discuss lived experiences; and design explorations centering on biases.
The SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit is designed to inform, engage, and inspire attendees, with a focus on diversity, leadership, and technology issues, especially as it relates to the effects of the pandemic.
The half-day, closed-door event runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT, and will feature presentations and breakout sessions tackling the impact of bias, both human and algorithmic. The 2020 edition of the SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit saw more than 250 attendees, with more than 70 percent representing the media and entertainment industry and tech-adjacent companies.
For regular program updates, visit the event website here. To register, click here.
To sponsor SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit 2020, contact Evie Silvers at [email protected], or Garrett Finley at [email protected].