Title:
The Myopia of Model Centrism
The Myopia of Model Centrism
| dc.contributor.author | Sambasivan, Nithya | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. GVU Center | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-17T18:28:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-17T18:28:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-02-24 | |
| dc.description | Presented online via Bluejeans Meetings on February 24, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. | en_US |
| dc.description | Dr. Nithya Sambasivan is a sociotechnical researcher whose work is in solving hard, socially-important design problems impacting marginalised communities in the Global South. Her current research re-imagines AI fundamentals to work for low-resource communities. As a former Staff Research Scientist at Google Research, she pioneered several original, award-winning research initiatives such as responsible AI in the Global South, human-data interaction, gender equity online, and next billion users, which fundamentally shaped the company’s strategy for emerging markets, besides landing as new products affecting millions of users including in Google Station, Search, YouTube, Android, Maps & more. | en_US |
| dc.description | Runtime: 55:27 minutes | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results from my multi-year inquiry into how fundamentals of AI systems—data, expertise, and fairness—are viewed in AI development. I pay particular attention to developer practices in AI systems intended for low-resource communities, especially in the Global South, where people are enrolled as labourers or untapped DAUs. Despite the inordinate role played by these fundamentals on model outcomes, data work is under-valued; domain experts are reduced to data-entry operators; and fairness and accountability assumptions do not scale past the West. Instead, model development is glamourised, and model performance is viewed as the indicator of success. The overt emphasis on models, at the cost of ignoring these fundamentals, leads to brittle and reductive interventions that ultimately displace functional and complex real-world systems in low-resource contexts. I put forth practical implications for AI research and practice to shift away from model centrism to enabling human ecosystems; in effect, building safer and more robust systems for all. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 55:27 minutes | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/66314 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GVU Brown Bag | |
| dc.subject | Artificial intelligence (AI) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human-computer interaction | en_US |
| dc.subject | Machine learning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social analysis of technology | en_US |
| dc.title | The Myopia of Model Centrism | en_US |
| dc.type | Moving Image | |
| dc.type.genre | Lecture | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | GVU Center | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | GVU Brown Bag Seminars | |
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