Past Events
<AI & Equality> Critical Data Studies course at EPFL
- Date: 06 October, 2021
- Course: Critical Data Studies
- Location: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Host: Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse
- Applied research: Social impact of development practices on dating: Re-engineering the Tinder algorithm
- Researcher: Jessica Pidoux
Using gender as a prism to understand a human rights framework that underscores AI, the interactive workshop focuses on what a human rights approach is, how a sociological perspective can contribute to developing practices, and the journey of data and model design, using a Jupyter notebook to work through the Pre-Processing, In-Processing and Post-Processing steps of the data life cycle. Through the workshop we foster reflection on the stereotypes, biases and gendered roles of both women and men, with the intention of understanding what real-life constraints hinder equality in the working environments and the output of computer scientists and engineers.