Put AI to Work
April 15-18, 2019
New York, NY
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Responsible AI practices: A technical demonstration

Andrew Zaldivar (Google)
4:55pm–5:35pm Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Implementing AI
 Location: Rendezvous
Secondary topics:  Deep Learning and Machine Learning tools, Ethics, Privacy, and Security
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Who is this presentation for?

  • Data scientists, data analysts, quantitative analysts, ML/AI practitioners, technical program and product managers, and technologists

Level

Beginner

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A basic understanding of machine learning
  • A working knowledge of Python (e.g., writing code that contains basic programming constructs)
  • Familiarity with high-level TensorFlow APIs (e.g., estimators, Keras)
  • Experience with data science libraries, such as Matplotlib, seaborn, pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn (useful but not required)

What you'll learn

  • Explore readily available tools and techniques that help address fairness, inclusion, and other ethical values in AI systems
  • Learn how to implement these approaches into new or existing AI systems
  • Understand where to go should new problems related to fairness and inclusion arise in your system

Description

The development of AI is creating new opportunities to improve the lives of people around the world. It’s also raising new questions about the best way to build fairness, interpretability, privacy, security, and other moral and ethical values into these systems.

Using the Jupyter Notebook and high-level TensorFlow APIs, Andrew Zaldivar shares hands-on examples that highlight current work and recommended practices toward building AI systems that are fair and inclusive for all. You’ll learn how to design your model using concrete goals for fairness and inclusion, the importance of using representative datasets to train and test models, how to check a system for unfair biases, and how to analyze performance. Each of these points will be accompanied by a technical demonstration that is readily available for you to try for yourself.

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Andrew Zaldivar

Google

Andrew Zaldivar is a senior developer advocate for Google AI. His job is to help to bring the benefits of AI to everyone. Andrew develops, evaluates, and promotes tools and techniques that can help communities build responsible AI systems, writing posts for the Google Developers blog, and speaking at a variety of conferences. Previously, Andrew was a senior strategist in Google’s Trust and Safety Group and worked on protecting the integrity of some of Google’s key products by using machine learning to scale, optimizing, and automating abuse-fighting efforts. Andrew holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Irvine and was an Insight Data Science fellow.