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Open Studio: AI & Health, thinking through maintenance, repair and response-ability | Amina Soulimani
2024-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
This open studio will focus on exploring the multiple ways through which we can understand the entanglement of repair and maintenance with visionary aspirations around smart hospitals. By revisiting earlier and contemporary Feminist STS texts, new materialism, phenomenology and leaning on insights from the field, Amina will share insights emerging from her ongoing PhD research. Presenting Morocco as a case study, this talk shall explore further the dimensions that waiting takes in environments that run through foreign software in local hospitals.
About Amina Soulimani: Amina Soulimani’s research investigates human-technology interactions in oncology care, and algorithmic infrastructures within hospitals in Morocco. Her work is guided primarily through interdisciplinary practice, decolonial scholarship, and critical realism when dreaming about dignified care futures. She is Doctoral Research Fellow at HUMA, The Institute for Humanities in Africa, and a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Open Studio: Much Distress and Little Relief | Jamie Fuller
2024-11-18 16:00 - 17:00
Earlier this year, predictive optimization was introduced into South Africa’s social grant system to detect and counter fraud. As a result, thousands (and counting) of the country’s most financially vulnerable have been mistakenly excluded from receiving their grant payment. This open studio unpacks the case study, explaining what went wrong and reflecting on a more productive use of AI. It concludes that while AI may be most alluring in the resource-constrained realities of developing countries, it is precisely in such contexts that it poses the greatest threat.
About the speaker: Jamie Fuller is a junior researcher at Research ICT Africa, a Cape Town – based think tank committed to enabling universal and meaningful digital access across the continent. She holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and is especially passionate about everyday ethical dilemmas, including those associated with advanced data-driven technologies.

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Open Studio: Can Bias in LLMs Be Used for Good? | Francesca Lucchini Wortzman
2024-12-02 16:00 - 17:00
It is a well-known fact that LLMs express harmful biases in their predictions. The main source comes from the training datasets, which are too large and expensive to check thoroughly. In this open studio, Francesca Lucchini will explore how we can leverage the bias in LLMs and use them to examine massive datasets, discovering starting points for a data audit.
About the speaker: Francesca Lucchini Wortzman is a Tech Lead at CENIA, the National Artificial Intelligence Research Center. She has a computer science and masters degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, she specializes in machine learning applications related to urban analysis and computer vision. Francesca is passionate about gender equality and applied ethics in AI.

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