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SUMMARY:Reading Circle: AI + Governance Data Conscience | Brandeis Marshall
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TITLE: Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity \nAUTHOR: Dr. Brandeis Marshall \nDESCRIPTION: (Source: Bookshop.org) \n \nData has enjoyed ‘bystander’ status as we’ve attempted to digitize responsibility and morality in tech. In fact\, data’s importance should earn it a spot at the center of our thinking and strategy around building a better\, more ethical world. It’s use―and misuse―lies at the heart of many of the racist\, gendered\, classist\, and otherwise oppressive practices of modern tech. \nIn Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity\, computer science and data inclusivity thought leader Dr. Brandeis Hill Marshall delivers a call to action for rebel tech leaders\, who acknowledge and are prepared to address the current limitations of software development. In the book\, Dr. Brandeis Hill Marshall discusses how the philosophy of “move fast and break things” is\, itself\, broken\, and requires change. \nYou’ll learn about the ways that discrimination rears its ugly head in the digital data space and how to address them with several known algorithms\, including social network analysis\, and linear regression. \nA can’t-miss resource for junior-level to senior-level software developers who have gotten their hands dirty with at least a handful of significant software development projects\, Data Conscience also provides readers with: \n\n\n\nDiscussions of the importance of transparency\nExplorations of computational thinking in practice\nStrategies for encouraging accountability in tech\nWays to avoid double-edged data visualization\n\n\n\n\nSchemes for governing data structures with law and algorithms\n\n  \nAUTHOR BIO: \n \nDr. Brandeis Marshall is the founder and CEO of DataedX Group\, LLC. DataedX provides learning and development training to help educators\, scholars and practitioners in developing more responsible data/AI practices. \nDr. Marshall speaks\, writes and consults on how to move slower and build better people-first tech. She has been a Stanford PACS Practitioner Fellow and Partner Research Fellow at Siegel Family Endowment.  \nMarshall has served as faculty at both Purdue University and Spelman College. Her scholarly work in data literacy\, data science and computing has been supported by the National Science Foundation and philanthropy organizations. She is the author of Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity (Wiley\, 2022)\, co-editor of Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning (McGraw-Hill\, 2024) and contributing author in The Black Agenda (Macmillan\, 2022). \nRELATED LINKS: \n\n\n\nLinkedIn\nAuthor website\nExplain Which AI You Mean\, please? \nWhat’s UnAI-able?\n\n\n\n\nAI Ethics with Dr. Brandeis Marshall\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Webinar: AI & human rights | Shahla Naimi
DESCRIPTION:The widescale deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has serious implications for human rights and dignity. Popular AI models are plagued with pervasive biases\, resulting in discrimination against individuals from marginalized groups such as women and people of color. As these technologies are increasingly used in surveillance and autonomous weapons\, they pose additional risks to vulnerable segments of our society. There is an urgent imperative to ensure these powerful technologies are developed ethically and deployed responsibly to minimize harmful outcomes and maximize positive benefits for humanity. \nOn July 31 for our AI Expert Webinar\, we have invited Shahla Naimi\, Policy Director\, AI & Human Rights at Salesforce to discuss how we can build technological safeguards to ensure protection of human rights in the AI age. \nRegister to join us for this and future Women in AI Ethics™(WAIE) webinars. \n\n  \nSpeaker: \nShahla Naimi\, Policy Director\, AI & Human Rights at Salesforce\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/snaimi \n\nBased in New York\, Shahla Naimi is the Policy Director in the Office of Ethical and Humane Use at Salesforce\, where she focuses on issues around AI and human rights. Her broader team – the Ethical Use Policy team – develops and implements policies to ensure the company’s technology is not abused or used for harm in society. Prior to joining Salesforce\, Shahla helped lead Google’s human rights program on the Government Affairs and Public Policy team. She previously worked for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Afghanistan on conservation and intangible heritage projects and for international nonprofits and organizations like the World Bank\, Oxfam\, CARE and others. She received her master’s in sociology and anthropology from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva\, and she earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Yale University. She sits on the board of the Arab American Family Support Center. Shahla is a trained pro-bono doula and the co-founder of Kolba\, a nonprofit supporting Afghan refugees resettling in the United States. \n\nOther links:\nhttps://www.salesforce.com/blog/author/shahla-naimi/
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