AI Hot Topics: AI, Ethics, and Bias: Human Factors or Machine Learning?

Please join the Data Science and AI Academy for the AI Hot Topic series, an opportunity for people curious about AI to network with experts, scholars and practitioners. Each month, a small group from industry and academia will explore a new topic in AI research, ethics, and practice. Through these conversations, we will envision new opportunities to build industry-academia-government partnerships, collaborations and community.

Description: Where does bias in AI systems originate, and how does it show up in practice? What disciplinary knowledge is relevant, and how can it be integrated? This panel brings together perspectives from anthropology, English, and computer science to explore how ethics is operationalized and what gets in the way.

Meghan Manfra, faculty director in the Data Science and AI Academy, will moderate the discussion. The panelists are:

• Kinsey Katchka, Ph.D., cultural anthropologist and systems ethnographer, counter-bias consultant and AI valuator
• Christin Phelps, associate director of the Professional Writing Program in the Department of English at NC State
• Dave Roberts, a Department of Computer Science professor in the College of Engineering at NC State