An Interdisciplinary Expert Pool for Natural Language Understanding

Explore a groundbreaking approach to addressing ethical concerns in natural language understanding and machine learning in this 30-minute conference talk by Francisca Hoyer at the 2023 GAIA Conference. Delve into the complexities of training data for large language models, examining how historical, social, and cultural contexts embedded in these datasets can perpetuate biases, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices. Learn about AI Sweden's innovative solution: an interdisciplinary expert pool that brings together humanities scholars, social scientists, civil society organizations, and AI development teams to tackle issues of data representativeness, fairness, equality, and ethics in concrete use case scenarios. Gain insights from Hoyer, a historian turned AI professional, on the importance of diverse perspectives in responsible AI innovation and the potential for cross-disciplinary collaboration to shape more ethical and inclusive language technologies.