Discrimination in machine decision making
Event details
| Date | 22.09.2017 |
| Hour | 10:15 › 11:30 |
| Speaker |
Prof. Krishna Gummadi, Max Planck Institute Bio: Krishna Gummadi, who is a tenured faculty member and head of the Networked Systems research group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Germany. He also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Saarland. Krishna's research interests are in the measurement, analysis, design, and evaluation of complex Internet-scale systems. His current projects focus on understanding and building social computing systems. His work on online social networks, Internet access networks, and peer-to-peer systems has been widely cited and his papers have received numerous awards, including SIGCOMM Test of Time, IW3C2 WWW Best Paper Honorable Mention, and Best Papers at NIPS ML & Law Symposium, ACM COSN, ACM/Usenix SOUPS, AAAI ICWSM, Usenix OSDI, ACM SIGCOMM IMC, and SPIE MMCN. He has also co-chaired AAAI's ICWSM 2016, IW3C2 WWW 2015, ACM COSN 2014, and ACM IMC 2013 conferences. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Machine (data-driven learning-based) decision making is increasingly being used to assist or replace human decision making in a variety of domains ranging from banking (rating user credit) and recruiting (ranking applicants) to judiciary (profiling criminals) and journalism (recommending news-stories). Recently concerns have been raised about the potential for discrimination and unfairness in such machine decisions. Against this background, in this talk, I will pose and attempt to answer the following high-level questions:
(a) How do machines learn to make discriminatory decision making?
(b) How can we quantify discrimination in machine decision making?
(c) How can we control machine discrimination? i.e., can we design learning mechanisms that avoid discriminatory decision making?
(d) Is there a cost to non-discriminatory decision making?
Practical information
- General public
- Free