Beauty in Code 2023, 5 of 6 - Pelonomi Moiloa: "Protecting Machines from Us: Lessons from..."

Beauty in Code 2023 was a single-track full day IT-conference organized by Living IT, featuring six amazing speakers from three continents. It was hosted at the Malmö Live conference center on March 4, 2023.
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Session 5 of 6 by Pelonomi Moiloa (@tamati_biskit)
"Protecting Machines from Us: Lessons from the Majority World"
The possibilities of machine learning are ever expanding and therein lies prospects for a utopian AI-Human hybrid future. With increased opportunities to do good however there are just as many opportunities to do harm and even in the case that good intentions are at the helm, evidence suggests that opportunities for good may eventually prove to be the opposite. The greatest threat to what machine learning is able to achieve and to us as humans is twofold: Machine learning created with harmful biases built into its core with intent, and machine learning that does not reflect the diversity of the users it is meant to serve. The human experience is fundamentally flawed but how do we keep the worst parts of ourselves from manifesting in the machines we create?