December 1, 2022 — Asia Society Northern California hosted Diyi Yang, Assistant Professor Computer Science Professor, Natural Language Processing Group, Stanford University and Michael Bernstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science and STMicoelectronics Faculty Scholar at Stanford University, for an Executive Roundtable on Promoting Diverse Voices and Fairness in AI.

Speakers explained how bias and discrimination is encoded in AI algorithms and discussed the possibility of new AI approaches to promote fairness by including diverse voices and detecting different forms of toxicity. They zoomed in on jury learning, a supervised machine learning approach that resolves label disagreements explicitly through the metaphor of a jury and talked about future directions and solutions that can be taken to mitigate biases in AI systems.

For more information about Prof Bernstein's research in human-computer interaction focusing on the design of social computing systems, click here. Prof Yang's research on understanding human communication in social context and building socially aware language technologies to support human-human and human-computer interaction can be found here. 

We thank our event partner DLA Piper in hosting this off-the-record Executive Roundtable with our Innovator, Groundbreaker, Advisory Council, and Board members.