WATCH: Susan Paddock on AI & Equity
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This is the latest in our EquityCorps video series, featuring NORC experts who are advancing equity through social science research.
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August 2024
Susan Paddock sheds light on how artificial intelligence (AI) can help advance equity.
Susan Paddock, executive vice president and chief scientist at NORC, recently joined Vince Welch, associate director of the Center on Equity Research, for the latest video in our EquityCorps series.
In this interview, Susan discusses AI and equity, including potential benefits and risks, methods for measuring bias in algorithms, and the importance of centering people in AI development. She also shares how natural language processing can be used as a tool to understand diverse voices.
Key Topics
- The promises and risks of AI when it comes to equity issues, with bias and fairness as top concerns.
- How bias in AI can stem from data quality issues, algorithm design, and result presentation.
- Defining fairness in AI, which is context-dependent and requires input from those affected by the technology.
- How natural language processing is being used to understand diverse voices and summarize text data.
- The importance of centering people in AI development, as AI should be a tool to improve people's lives.
- Susan's excitement about the future of AI in advancing equity, with ongoing development of frameworks to evaluate fairness in AI algorithms.
