AI in Society: Ethics, Handling Privacy, Bias

Jefferson Building, Room 450, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Instructors

Bret Nestor and Claudio Battiloro

Learning Outcomes

  • AI ethical frameworks (virtue, rights-based, care-based, utilitarian, deontology). AI regulations. Impact of AI on the labor market.
  • How to make a machine learning model safe for sharing
  • Measuring bias in a dataset, correcting bias in a dataset
  • Privacy protection.

Use Cases

  • Discussion on AI ethics, AI Regulations in the US and EU, AI impact on the labor market and society. Academic integrity
  • guidelines. [50%]
  • Hands-on Session on [50%]:
    • IRB-approved privacy/cell suppression
    • How a linkage attack works
    • Model bias and fairness
    • Safe-for-publication/Safe-for-prompting data summary with differential privacy
    • Safety/Safe prompting

Prerequisites

  • Python programming with familiarity in Pytorch
  • Basic understanding of neural networks
  • GPU access (e.g., free-tier Google Colab)