[Air-L] Today: "Machines That Fail Us" event at Universität St. Gallen and streaming

[Philip Di Salvo]

Dear colleagues,



Our «Machines That Fail Us»
<https://www.unisg.ch/en/news/events/conference-machines-that-fail-us/> event
is coming up tomorrow at Universität St. Gallen, from 10 am to 6pm CEST.

"Machines That Fail Us" brings together actors from academia, journalism,
civil society, and the tech industry to discuss the impacts of AI failures,
hallucinations, and errors. This event will gather critical voices of some
of the most committed individuals working towards a better future with
artificial intelligence. We invite you all to join us, registration is
required.

AI technologies and algorithms are progressively employed across diverse
sectors, spanning from educational institutions and healthcare
professionals to employers and government agencies, for evaluating and
deciding upon different facets of our lives. Yet, it begs the fundamental
question: Do these systems truly exhibit impartiality and fairness when
analysing individuals and their behaviour? Our stance is that they do not.
Ironically, despite their professed aim of enhancing objectivity and
effectiveness, these technologies contain inherent biases and inaccuracies,
particularly in terms of human profiling. During the three years of "The
Human Error Project" <https://thehumanerrorproject.ch/theproject/>, we
examined how journalists, civil society organizations and tech
entrepreneurs in Europe deal with AI errors and how they negotiate and
coexist with the impact of AI on human rights. During this we will present
our research results and work together with the audience on two workshops
questioning how to build more sustainable AI futures.

Here’s the full program for the day:
https://www.unisg.ch/en/news/events/conference-machines-that-fail-us/. You
can still register if you’re interested to join us in person.

The afternoon sessions, featuring a keynote speech by Prof. Stefania Milan
<https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/m/i/s.milan/s.milan.html> from
the University of Amsterdam and a discussion panel with Luca Zorloni
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucazorloni?originalSubdomain=it>, Head of
Digital at *Wired <http://wired.it>*, Ilia Siatista
<https://privacyinternational.org/people/3004/dr-ilia-siatitsa>, Programme
Director and Senior Legal Officer at Privacy International
<https://privacyinternational.org/> and Lorna Goulden
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lornagoulden/?originalSubdomain=nl>, Founder
of the Twinds Foundation <https://twinds.org/> will be live-streamed.

You can follow the sessions remotely here (no registration required):
https://www.youtube.com/live/gOBCNuc9CI8

Many thanks,
-- 

*Philip Di Salvo, PhD*
Researcher
<https://mcm.unisg.ch/en/personenverzeichnis/9479a240-e20b-4b1e-aaa4-249f2ca42eab>
| journalist <https://twitter.com/philipdisalvo>
Zürich