A big thank you to everyone who came out to our event, A Conversation on Queerness and AI! We were pleased to co-produce the event with the Equity team in the OPVPA as part of Queer History Month at McGill. We really appreciated your contributions to the lively discussion. The hour flew by!
The resources shared at the event can be found below. We’d also encourage you to keep an eye on our Web Services website for future conversations on this topic.
McGill resources
- Equity at McGill Workshop and Events
- Web Services training and events
- McGill Digital Standards
- EDI best practices for websites - Writing style guides
External resources
- Accessible Standards Canada - Accessible and Equitable Artificial Intelligence Systems Technical Guide, includes sections about:
- Statistical discrimination
- Reliability, accuracy and trustworthiness
- Freedom from negative bias
- Equity of decisions and outcomes
- Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, Gouvernement du Québec
- Video: Facebook Knew I was Gay Before I Did: Queer Data and the Generative Capacities of AI
- Wired article: Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People
Books
- Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression
- Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction
- Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How AI will change the way we live and love
All books above are available at McGill Libraries.
