Karin Sconzert's guests this week are 2 professors from Carthage College who will discuss Artificial Intelligence.
Sara Jensen is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Carthage College. She spent a semester in advanced study of machine learning techniques in order to help build the Data Science major at Carthage at the start of her career. She recently spent a semester-long sabbatical working as a data scientist and continues to consult in that field.
Andrea Henle is an associate professor of biology at Carthage College. She is currently spending two years in a science and technology policy fellowship program in Washington, D.C.. Her work in D.C. focuses on supporting AI and emerging tech research that addresses local priorities and benefits communities.
Here are links mentioned in this program:
AI: Ain't I am Woman, video on how AI misinterprets photos of black women with the effect of erasing them from history.
Here is the trailer for the documentary Coded Bias Here is a link to where you can watch it now
Janet, the android character from the TV show The Good Place is mentioned, here is a link to where you can watch it now
Here is a link to the book Weapons of Math Destruction, and a video of a book talk with the author, Cathy O'Neil
Video about an effort to make sure machine learning includes a Human in the Loop