Tech Ethics Bristol Launch Event - Lunchtime talk - Miranda Mowbray:

"Bias in AI text processing: Bristolians and Stochastic Parrots"

We'd like to invite you to our launch event for Tech Ethics Bristol. We will introduce this new Meetup group and run through what we have planned over the coming months.

We are proud to have Miranda Mowbray, honorary lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Bristol to be our guest speaker at the launch event of Tech Ethics Bristol.

Miranda has a wealth of experience having worked for more than two decades as a Senior Researcher at Hewlett-Packard.

She is an affiliate scholar of the PiLoTlab tech policy lab at Penn State University and a member of the Advisory Council for the Open Rights Group.

Miranda will be delivering a presentation on "Bias in AI text processing: Bristolians and stochastic parrots".

In this presentation Miranda will talk about the demographic bias that can occur in natural language processing, focusing on the large language models that Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru recently described as "stochastic parrots".

She will discuss what the AI text-generator GPT-2 associates with Bristolians, and why.

Miranda will also be giving some practical tips on how to deal with something at work that we might disagree with ethically.

This is a free online event streaming via the CrowdCast platform. We will provide the link to the event on this page the week before the event. The evening before the event, we'll email those that RSVPed with more details about what to expect when using CrowdCast.

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👋 12.30pm - Event starts with a welcome from your meet-up organisers, Karin & Alex. We will give you an overview of Tech Ethics Bristol and introduction to our event series.

🗓️ 1.25pm - Round-up, other community notices and next event announcement.

The event will be recorded and will be available along with Miranda slides to view shortly afterwards.

Tech Ethics Bristol - Launch Event