Public Lecture Series "Taming the Machines"Webinar "Moral Agency and Machine Learning"
1 June 2022
Photo: UCI
It is often claimed that machine learning does not use classification systems assigning people to ‘protected’ categories and that therefor it is unbiased. However, its effects often include clear value judgements and political bias. In his guest lecture on June 1, 2022, Prof. Geoffrey Bowker (University of California Irvine, USA) presents a framework for thinking through the question of whose decisions get folded into machine learning and for developing an analytic framework for their exploration.
When: 01.06.2022, 18:15 - 19:45 CEST/Berlin time
Where: The event will take place as a digital Zoom webinar. The access data will be sent to you by e-mail after registration on our research group’s website and are valid for all webinars of the series.
Registration and complete programme of „Taming the Machines“ lecture series:
https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines/summer22.html