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SUMMARY:What People in Rural Villages in Togo Can Teach Us About ML/AI and Privacy with Zoe Kahn | AI & Equality Pub-Talk
DESCRIPTION:🔗 Access paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3710968 \nHow do people living in rural villages in Togo feel about the use of emerging technologies in humanitarian aid? This work reports on the privacy concerns of people living in rural Togo related to the use of machine learning models trained on phone data to allocate cash assistance to people living in poverty\, highlighting an innovative method — sociotechnical visuals — to explain complex technical concepts so that people living in rural villages with limited literacy\, formal education\, and familiarity with digital tech could provide meaningful input. \nAbout the speaker:\nZoe Kahn is a postdoctoral research at the Research Centre for Trustworthy Data Science and Security. She received her PhD in Information Science from UC Berkeley and her B.A. in Sociology from New York University. Her research lies at the intersection of computer science\, law\, and society. She explores how people can meaningfully participate in the design of sociotechnical systems — especially those shaping public life\, governance\, and digital rights. Dr. Kahn has collaborated with diverse communities across Africa and the United States\, including extended fieldwork in rural Togo. \nHer work combines qualitative research with creative methods such as storytelling and sociotechnical visuals to make complex technical systems more understandable\, opening up dialogue with people with varying levels of literacy\, formal education\, and familiarity with digital tech. Beyond academia\, she has worked at a civil rights law firm\, tech startup\, and Microsoft–where she contributed to responsible AI tooling and governance frameworks. \n\n\nRegister here via our community on Circle
URL:https://aiequalitytoolbox.com/event/ai-equality-pub-talk-what-people-in-rural-villages-in-togo-can-teach-us-about-ml-ai-and-privacy-with-zoe-kahn/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Automation: Protecting Student Voice in the Age of AI with Daire Maria Ni Uanachain | AI & Equality Open Studio
DESCRIPTION:This Open Studio shares an in-progress Feminist AI–informed learning design framework that examines how power\, authorship\, and agency shift when Generative AI is introduced into secondary education. Drawing on classroom pilots\, design research\, and assessment tools such as a Student-Author Voice rubric\, the work explores how LLMs can be integrated through co-creation and gradual immersion\, rather than extraction or automation. The session foregrounds methodological tensions\, ethical trade-offs\, and policy-relevant questions emerging from real educational contexts. \n🔗 More: Finding student-author voice: a rubric for assessment in the AI era. \nEducational AI systems increasingly shape how knowledge is produced\, evaluated\, and legitimized—often without addressing whose voices are amplified or erased. This work matters because it applies Feminist AI principles to learning design\, offering concrete strategies to safeguard student authorship\, agency\, and equity while aligning with emerging AI governance frameworks. It contributes practice-based evidence to policy discussions on responsible AI use in education beyond compliance checklists. \n\n\nRegister here via our community on Circle
URL:https://aiequalitytoolbox.com/event/ai-equality-open-studio-beyond-automation-protecting-student-voice-in-the-age-of-ai-with-daire-maria-ni-uanachain/
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SUMMARY:Public Interest AI: Procurement as Democratic Infrastructure with Emma Kallina | AI & Equality Open Studio
DESCRIPTION:Public sector AI has the potential to harm citizens\, with risks increasing as its use expands. Recent work positions public procurement as a way to shape public sector AI in line with public interests\, using the state’s purchasing power to influence which AI systems are procured and under what conditions. \nIn this presentation\, I explore how this potential could be realised in practice by drawing on semi-structured interviews with UK/EU buyers\, providers\, and procurement experts. More specifically\, I highlight six promising procurement practices that enable the public sector to shape AI in line with public interests\, alongside concrete mechanisms to support their uptake. These practices as well as derived interventions provide directions for both research and practice on how public procurement can be used as a governance mechanism for better aligning AI with public interests. \nThere will be time for questions and discussions – a lot of ongoing research to talk about 🙂 \nEmma Kallina is a PostDoc Researcher at the Compliant & Accountable Systems Group\, operating across the University of Cambridge and the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security. \n\n\nRegister here via our community on Circle
URL:https://aiequalitytoolbox.com/event/public-interest-ai-procurement-as-democratic-infrastructure-with-emma-kallina-ai-equality-open-studio/
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