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If you have a disability, you experience both the extreme opportunities and extreme harms of artificial intelligence (AI). AI helps to find, match, sort, label, measure, translate, optimize, calculate, and analyze at scale using statistical reasoning. This can be positively life-changing for people with disabilities when applied to the typical world. It is harmful when what is processed is people, especially people with disabilities who tend to be statistical outliers or marginalized minorities. AI decision systems are currently pervasively deployed to guide or make critical decisions about people. How do we prevent the harms while taking advantage of the opportunities? The session will give an overview of the complex relationship between AI and disability. Emerging standards and regulations, the CRC Code of Ethics, as well as promising approaches for trustworthy AI will be presented.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify 3 applicants of AI that has an impact on your community.
2. Identify 3 risks to people with disabilities by AI decision systems.
3. Describe two examples of how AI is integrated into assistive technologies.
4. Describe one application of the CRC Code of Ethics in the space of AI.
Speaker Bio:
Jutta Treviranus is the Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and professor in the faculty of Design at OCAD University in Toronto. Jutta established the IDRC in 1993 as the nexus of a growing global community that proactively works to ensure that our digitally transformed and globally connected society is designed inclusively. Dr. Treviranus also founded an innovative graduate program in inclusive design at OCAD University. Jutta is credited with developing an inclusive design methodology that has been adopted by large enterprise companies such as Microsoft, as well as public sector organizations.
