Event Report.pdf

LOOKING AT A JUST FUTURE?
The discussion, held on July 24, 2020, featured speakers Ms. Smriti Parsheera, Mr. Ameen Jauhar, Mr. Prasanth Sugathan, and Mr. Abhayraj Naik, and was moderated by Ms. Apurva Singh.
Ms. Parsheera spoke on AI from a gender perspective, highlighting the underrepresentation of women in decision-making positions in the field of AI, and how this affects the data used to train AI systems, leading to biased outcomes, such as Amazon's AI-powered hiring tool filtering out female candidates.
She also discussed facial recognition technology, citing a study that found error rates for darker-skinned females were as high as 34%, while white males had an error rate of less than 1%.
Mr. Jauhar discussed AI in the criminal justice system, stating that we are not ready for AI judges or replacing human lawyers with AI, and that current AI systems are narrow and rely on large datasets, which can be biased and lead to unfair outcomes.
The discussion aimed to explore the various sectors affected by AI, including education and the criminal justice system, and to review the issues posed by AI from ethical and gender perspectives.