Hope to see you all tomorrow! On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 8:14 AM Ananditha Raghunath < [email protected]> wrote:
> This week at Change, we're grateful to have Dr. Devansh Saxena (he/him) > give a talk on *Rethinking AI Innovation in the Public Sector through the > Lens of Repair Work.* > > *Description*: Emerging evidence from research on algorithmic > decision-making in the public sector suggests that AI systems are leading > to outcome-oriented harms that disproportionately impact low-income and > minority communities. Here, the interplay between the legal and systemic > mechanics and AI systems can adversely impact the fairness of the > decision-making process itself. I unpack process-oriented harms in child > welfare that adversely affect the nature of professional practice, and > administration at the agency, and lead to unreliable decisions at the > street level. Caseworkers are compelled to undertake additional labor in > the form of repair work to restore disrupted administrative workflow and > decision-making processes, all while facing organizational pressures and > time and resource constraints. > > *Bio*: Devansh Saxena is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie > Mellon University and will be joining the Information School at the > University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. He > studies sociotechnical practices of decision-making in high-stakes domains > and the social impacts of introducing AI in such domains. His work examines > how human-AI interaction plays out in practice where decisions are mediated > by organizational constraints, nuances of professional practice, and > algorithmic decision-making. He is interested in developing new methods and > tools that support AI innovation at the earliest stages of ideation, > problem formulation, and project selection. > > *Resources*: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3616473, > https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544548.3581308 > > We hope to see you there! Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu > > Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm PST in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates > Center) or on Zoom: Https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408 > <https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408> > Best, > UW Change Organizers > _______________________________________________ > Researchers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/researchers >
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