20 - Guest lecture on AI, Machine Learning, and Poverty
Thu, Mar 28
Today we will be joined by Georgina Curto who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ND Technology Ethics Center (University of Notre Dame) and incoming faculty at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society. She chairs the IJCAI Symposia in the Global South and Co-Chair the AI & Social Good Special Track at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'23).
Focusing on issues of poverty mitigation, fairness and inclusion, Dr. Curto works on the design of AI socio-technical systems that provide new insights to counteract inequality, and more broadly, to advance interdisciplinary research towards the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
She conducts research that contributes to the AI state of the art in Natural Language Processing, Agent-Based Modeling, Social Networks and Machine Learning, with the ultimate goal to offer insights for innovative interventions to local and global challenges.
Today's slides can be found here.
Read This:
As you prepare for class read Dr. Curto's forthcoming piece, "Can Poverty Be Reduced by Acting on Discrimination? An Agent-based Model for Policy Making" and consider the following questions:
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How can AI contribute to integral human development goals?
- And how can integral human development goals can contribute to AI research?