Workshop “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI”

Time: April 29th, 11am-3pm

Location: Chirurgisch Theater, Universiteitsbibliotheek, UvA

Chirurgisch Theater

On April 29th, from 11am until 3pm, you are invited to attend a workshop to discuss measuring and mitigating bias in modern AI, on the occasion of Oskar van der Wal’s PhD defense later that day (4pm). The workshop is organized by the Computional Linguistics Seminar of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam, the Center for Explainable, Responsible and Theory-driven Artificial Intelligence and the NWA program InDeep.

Program

11am Welcome with coffee

11u30 Oskar van der Wal (UvA & EU AI Office), Taking a step back: Measuring and mitigating bias in LLMs

12u00 Saurabh Khanna (University of Amsterdam), Invisible Language Monitor

12u30 Discussion

13h00 lunch & informal discussion (provided for registered participants; on location)

14h00 Jasmijn Bastings (Google DeepMind), Harm Taxonomy & Bias in Modern AI

14h30 Panel discussion with Eva Vanmassenhove (Tilburg), Rochelle Choenni (UvA, TBC) and Jasmijn Bastings (Google DeepMind). Chair: Willem Zuidema (UvA)

15h00 closing

Oskar van der Wal will defend his PhD thesis at 4pm the same day; more information

Registration & Contact

Register here Email the organizers here (or email Jelle Zuidema directly).