Working Group

AFOG affiliates meet several times per month at the UC Berkeley School of Information for informal discussions, presentations, and workshops with scholars, industry professionals, activists, artists, designers, and policy makers.

WHAT WE’RE READING

The Society of Algorithms

Jenna Burrell and Marion Fourcade

Constructing interval variables via faceted Rasch measurement and multitask deep learning: a hate speech application

Chris J. Kennedy, Geoff Bacon, Alexander Sahn, Claudia von Vacano

When are we going to start designing AI with purpose?

Josh Lovejoy

Lines of Sight (Logic Magazine)

Alex Hanna, Emily Denton, Andrew Smart, Hilary Nicole, Razvan Amironesei

Are surveillance capitalists behaviorists? Does it matter? No, and maybe.

Shreeharsh Kelkar

Value-laden Disciplinary Shifts in Machine Learning

Ravit Dotan, Smitha Milli

“The human body is a black box”: supporting clinical decision-making with deep learning

Mark Sendak, Madeleine Clare Elish, Michael Gao, Joseph Futoma, William Ratlif, Marshall Nichols, Armando Bedoya, Armando Bedoya, Cara O’Brien

Acting the Part: Examing Information Operations Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse

AHMER ARIF, LEO GRAIDEN STEWART, KATE STARBIRD

LUNCH TALKS

During some of our meetings, we invite speakers to present on relevant topics and work. Some past speakers are listed below.

  • Ravit Dotan and Smitha Milli, UC Berkeley
  • Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu (University of Michigan), Angela D.R. Smith (Northwestern University), Alexandra To (Carnegie Mellon University), and Kentaro Toyama (University of Michigan)
  • Safiya Noble, UCLA
  • Niloufar Salehi, Sam Robertson, and Tonya Nguyen, UC Berkeley
  • Jack Stigloe, University College London
  • Emily Denton (Google), Alex Hanna (Google), Razvan Amironessi (UC San Diego), Andrew Smart (Google), Hilary Nicole (Google)
  • Shreeharsh Kelkar, UC Berkeley & Ben Shestakofsky, University of Pennsylvania
  • Patrick Gage Kelley and Allison Woodruff, Google
  • Michael Tschantz, UC Berkeley
  • David G. Robinson, Cornell AI Policy and Practice Initiative
  • Rediet Abebe, Cornell
  • M. Mitchell, Google
  • Arash Nourian, FICO
  • Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Been Kim, Google
  • Andrew Selbst, Data & Society Research Institute, Yale Law School
  • Luke Stark, Dartmouth University
  • Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT)
  • Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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