In June of 2018, the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group (AFOG) held a summer workshop with the theme “Algorithms are Opaque and Unfair: Now What?.” The event was organized by Berkeley I School Professors (and AFOG co-directors) Jenna Burrell Read more…
NOTE: this reports on an AFOG relevant ISchool final project for the Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program. The project was developed by a student team composed of Samuel Meyer, Shrestha Mohanty, Sung Joo Son, and Monicah Wambugu. Read more…
Note: The following is a re-post of AFOG member Shreeharsh Kelkar’s September 25, 2017 post on Scatterplot responding to the controversy over Wang and Kosinski’s (2018) paper about using deep neural networks to recognize “gay” or “straight” faces. At the Read more…
Welcome to the AFOG Blog! We will use this space to post what we hope are accessible and provocative think pieces and reactions to academic research and news stories. Posts about what? Allow us to use this initial blog post Read more…