Laura Summers

No, your fairness eval library isn't making your system fair. Fairness is felt, not calculated. A talk for people who suspect we can't optimise our way to human dignity.

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AI development is still software development, just with some uniquely frustrating twists. You don't need to throw out everything you know about engineering, but you do need better patterns for building, debugging, and actually seeing what your AI is doing.

Community Notes - if you haven’t heard of this algorithm yet, you’ll come across it in 2025. Originated by the team at then-Twitter and developed open source, this year Meta will be adopting it across all platforms (and spinning down all other content moderation—but that’s a separate topic).

Sweet Summer Child Score (SSCS) is an open source library to identify potential AI harms. In this tutorial we'll break into small groups and take the quiz online using a motivating scenario.

AI won't end the world, but it can and is making life miserable for plenty of folks. Instead of engaging with the AI overlords, let's explore a pragmatic set of design choices that all Data Scientists and ML devs can implement right now, to reduce the risks of deploying AI systems in the real world.