Upcoming activities
Gender Bias in AI
Place: DesignLab, room LEARN-X, April 9th 2024, 12.30-14.30 hrs
Please register through this link.
FFNT is excited to invite you to our upcoming lunch discussion on the topic of "Gender Bias in AI", featuring speakers Agata Leszkiewicz and Karolina La Fors.
The rapidly evolving AI landscape presents both opportunities and challenges. While AI offers great promise for the future, it also brings the potential for unintended biases and consequences. A recent UNESCO study highlighted concerning evidence of regressive gender stereotypes in Large Language Models (LLMs), including prominent models such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-2 by OpenAI, and Llama 2 by META. Women are often depicted in traditional domestic roles, while men are associated with career and leadership positions (https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/generative-ai-unesco-study-reveals-alarming-evidence-regressive-gender-stereotypes).
In this FFNT event, our goal is to shine a spotlight on this important issue through two inspirational talks from UT experts and an open discussion.
Speaker 1: Agata Leszkiewicz
Agata Leszkiewicz is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Customer Analytics at the High-tech Business and Entrepreneurship department, University of Twente. Her research expertise focuses on marketing analytics and marketing modeling. Agata has published in the highest-ranked peer-reviewed journals in marketing and statistics disciplines. Her talk will take an economics and marketing perspective on artificial intelligence, and, specifically, discuss the choices, challenges, and trade-offs firms are facing now around responsible AI development, implementation, and use.
Speaker 2: Karolina La Fors
Karolina La Fors is a Senior Researcher in Responsible AI at the DesignLab of the University of Twente (The Netherlands) and she is a World Economic Forum Fellow at the Generation AI Platform. Her main research is focused on how to design ethical AI that accounts for ethics, children rights and children’s healthy development within children-AI interactions. For her achievements, she has been selected as one of “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics List 2023”. Her talk will discuss what AI systems should do where and how to uphold the intergenerational dialogue about children, ethics, individual and societal development and how to co-evolve with AI-systems in an inclusive, democratic society.