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SUMMARY:What comes next? After algorithmic fairness
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jenna Burrell (UC Berkeley School of Information)\nThe 
 dhCenter UNIL-EPFL\, in collaboration with the EPFL School of Computer and
  Communication Sciences (IC) and the College of Humanities (CDH)\, will ho
 st Jenna Burrell\, Professor at UC Berkeley and interim Director of Resear
 ch at Data & Society. The presentation is entitled “What comes next? Aft
 er algorithmic fairness”.\n\nAbstract\nRecent interest in ethical AI has
  brought a slew of values\, including fairness\, into conversations about 
 technology design. Research in the area of algorithmic fairness tends to b
 e rooted in questions of distribution that are appealing and tractable. Th
 ey can be precisely formalized and implemented in computer code.\nIn colla
 borative dialogue with colleagues and students over the past couple of yea
 rs\, Burrell has been working on an alternative argument\, putting human a
 utonomy and control at the center of conversations about algorithmic justi
 ce. To offer some grounding for this argument\, she has carried out resear
 ch using Twitter data. Her research team found that Twitter users who seek
  a measure of control over the platform’s algorithms do so for a variety
  of reasons\, and their strategies often had social utility. Such efforts 
 are often dismissed by platform owners as “gaming” the algorithms.\nBu
 rrell joins many voices that are now calling for incorporating participati
 on into all of the stages of algorithmic system design and deployment. By 
 amplifying automation discourses or the notion of benevolent guidance via 
 algorithms (without the counterpressure of broad participation by human st
 akeholders) we run the risk not of rule by robots\, but rather a consolida
 tion of power into the hands of a ‘coding elite.’\n\nAbout Jenna Burre
 ll\nJenna Burrell is interim Director of Research at Data & Society a non-
 profit research institute and a Professor at the School of Information at 
 UC-Berkeley.  Her research focuses on how communities in the margins adap
 t digital technologies to meet their needs and to pursue their goals and i
 deals. At Berkeley\, she established the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity 
 Group (AFOG) which brings together faculty and students from across the UC
 -Berkeley campus to facilitate research on how algorithmic systems can be 
 designed\, used\, or regulated to support more equitable and just societie
 s. Burrell is the author of Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes o
 f Urban Ghana (MIT Press) and is currently writing up her research finding
 s from a multi-year project about rural communities that host critical int
 ernet infrastructure\, such as fiber optic cables and data centers. She ea
 rned a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and a BA in Co
 mputer Science from Cornell University.\n 
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