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DESCRIPTION:We are partnering with MUTEK IMG to bring Dr. Rumman Chowdhury 
 to speak about her work on AI ethics.\n	\n	Algorithmic Colonialism: As AI te
 chnologies are integrated in the global south\, we risk repeating the prob
 lems of the past by creating extractionary industrial practices. Historica
 lly\, resource-rich African nations have not seen the benefits of their ri
 ches\; the 'resource curse' research highlights how these nations traditio
 nally have high levels of corruption and poorly developed local economies.
  Today's new 'resource' is data. The rise of the African Tech sector has b
 een spurred by significant investment by industry\, and in particular\, Ch
 inese AI companies. How can we use this new wave of AI development to addr
 ess\, rather than import\, the issues that arise with the implementation o
 f AI? How can we structure the implementation of this technology to help l
 ocal African economies flourish? This talk is an early-stage review of ong
 oing research with with Abeba Birhane\, PhD student at University of Dubli
 n.\n	\n	Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificia
 l intelligence and humanity. She holds degrees in quantitative social scie
 nce and has been a practicing data scientist and AI developer since 2013. 
 She is currently the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied I
 ntelligence\, where she works with C-suite clients to create cutting-edge 
 technical solutions for ethical\, explainable and transparent AI.\n	\n	In he
 r work as Accenture’s Responsible AI lead\, she led the design of the Fair
 ness Tool\, a first-in-industry algorithmic tool to identify and mitigate 
 bias in AI systems. The Fairness Tool has been utilized successfully at Ac
 centure clients around the world. Dr. Chowdhury co-authored a Harvard Busi
 ness Review piece on the tool.\n	\n	Dr. Chowdhury holds two undergraduate de
 grees from MIT\, a master's degree in Quantitative Methods of the Social S
 ciences from Columbia University\, and a doctorate in political science fr
 om the University of California\, San Diego.\n	\n	This event is part of the 
 Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker
  and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechno
 logy.com). This series was made possible thanks to the Social Sciences and
  Humanities Research Council of Canada\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexual
 ity\, and Feminist Studies of McGill\, MILA\, the Dean of Arts Development
  Fund of McGill\, Media @McGill\, McGill's Department of History and Class
 ical Studies\, the William Dawson Fund\, RéQEF\, the Moving Image Research
  Laboratory\, Element AI\, and L'Euguélionne: Montreal's Feminist Bookstor
 e.\n	\n	The MUTEK Festival was founded in Montréal 20 years ago by Alain Mon
 geau\, who was a chair of the ISEA international headquarters in Montréal 
 at that time. Today we also have permanent editions in Mexico\, Barcelona\
 , Tokyo\, Buenos Aires\, Dubai and San Francisco. Our core content is audi
 ovisual performance\, electronic live music and digital creativity a large
 . Our mission is to encourage artists to push the creative boundaries of t
 heir practice\, develop audiences for this type of work\, and nourish crit
 ical thinking with regards to technology and society. MUTEK is an internat
 ionally renowned reference event in its field\, however we aim to keep thi
 ngs at a human scale in order to create a meaningful\, transformative expe
 rience for participating artists\, professionals and audiences. Our 20th f
 estival edition will take place from August 20-25\, 2019 and present aroun
 d 120 performances and installations in 6 venues in downtown Montréal.\n	\n
 	MUTEK IMG festival\, AI contents include discussions on AI & tech through 
 the lens of Indigenous epistemologies by artist-researchers Jason Lewis an
 d Suzanne Kite based on their paper published by MIT Press\; a workshop by
  Russian curator Natalia Fuchs (Russia) and artist Helena Nikonole (Berlin
 )\; and a panel on authorship and AI hosted by researcher Valérie Bécaert 
 at Element AI with Ash Koosha.\n	www.mutek.org/en/montreal/2019\n	\n	Unlike o
 ur other 22 events\, there is a fee to attend this event. http://www.mutek
 .org/en/montreal/2019/billetterie/IMG%20billetterie\n	However\, in order to
  make this material accessible\, we hope to release a video of Dr. Chowdhu
 ry's talk after the event.\n	\n	Time will be updated closer to the event.\n
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SUMMARY:Rumman Chowdhury on AI Ethics and Algorithmic Colonialism
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/igsf/channels/event/rumman-chowdhury-ai-ethics-an
 d-algorithmic-colonialism-300414
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