Fwd: FW: SPECIAL LECTURE: "Applying Machine Learning to Social Problems: What Happens When We're Wrong?" (March 29 @ 12:30pm)

[Artur Dubrawski]

This could be of interest to many of us.

Artur




*From:* Jay D. Aronson <aronson at andrew.cmu.edu>
*Sent:* Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:05 PM
*To:* Jay D. Aronson <aronson at andrew.cmu.edu>
*Subject:* SPECIAL LECTURE: "Applying Machine Learning to Social Problems:
What Happens When We're Wrong?" (March 29 @ 12:30pm)



Hi All,



I am writing to let you know about an upcoming lecture that I think will be
of interest to you. Please share with anyone (including your colleagues and
students) who you think might be interested. Here are the details:



Patrick Ball, Director of Research, Human Rights Data Analysis Group (San
Francisco, CA) (https://hrdag.org/people/patrick-ball-phd/)



“Applying Machine Learning to Social Problems: What Happens When We're
Wrong?”



Abstract: Machine learning (ML) enables us to understand very
complicated relationships among variables in observed data, and make
predictions about other variables. In this talk, I'll contrast two uses of
ML: predicting the probable locations of hidden graves of disappeared
people in Mexico, and predicting the probable locations of crime using
data from police databases. I'll discuss the benefits of each project,
and the potential costs of being wrong. In particular, I'll focus on
who bears the cost of being wrong as an example of how we can reason
about the likely benefits or harms of a particular application of ML to
a social or policy problem.



DATE: Friday March 29, 2019



Time: 12:30-2pm



LOCATION: 4405 Gates and Hillman Centers (GHC 4405); Carnegie Mellon
University



LUNCH WILL BE SERVED, BUT AN RSVP IS REQUIRED. PLEASE EMAIL ME (
aronson at andrew.cmu.edu) AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING, AND ALSO
IF YOU HAVE ANY DIETARY RESTRICTIONS.



Thanks so much!



Jay



P.S. I will send a flyer early next week if you want to post it or pass it
along. This is a late-breaking event, so I figured I’d let you know about
it as soon as the details were sorted out. Also, please let me know if
there are any list serves that I should post this to.





-- 

Jay D. Aronson

Director, Center for Human Rights Science <http://www.cmu.edu/chrs>

Professor of Science, Technology, and Society

Department of History

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Ave.

240 Baker Hall

Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA



email: aronson at andrew.cmu.edu

office phone: 1.412.268.2887

mobile phone: 1.412.877.0955

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