Martina Desole

BIAS AND DIVERSITY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – THE EUROPEAN APPROACH. THE DIFFERENT ROOTS OF BIAS AND HOW DIVERSITY CAN HELP OVERCOMING IT

publication dateJun 30, 2020  publication descriptionThe Lab's Quarterly - Academic Journal Area 14

publication descriptionWhen we talk about artificial intelligence, it is important to dispel the myths and concerns that humans are creating a new form of intelligence, with its own conscience. Algorithms learn only from the data with which we train them, that’s why they resemble very much the structure of thoughts of who will input the training data-sets in the system. This can generate bias. In the context of machine learning, bias can signify that there is a greater level of error for certain demographic categories that received less attentions or about which we have less information or data. AI it’s already been used to make
decisions on people’ life, but currently vast parts of the society are left out from its development which does not capture their experiences or realities.
There is a diversity crisis in the AI sector including gender, visible minorities, race, persons with disabilities, and age. This leads to a problem of inclusion and equity as well, with many people being potentially excluded and disempowered by the creation of probable bias in the technology. The
European Commission addresses the issue of equity, diversity and inclusion in the White paper on Artificial Intelligence published the 18th of February 2020, giving a policy framework to implement actions in this direction.

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State of Play in the EU–CELAC Common Research Area - Estado de la cuestión del área de investigación común UE-ECLAC

publication dateDec 22, 2019  publication descriptionREVISTA ObIESVol.3, 2019Centro de Relaciones Interinstitucionales-CERI© Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas 2019

publication descriptionLatin America, the Caribbean and Europe share a long history of cooperation at many different levels: social, economic, and political, with a growing focus on shared projects on science, technology and innovation. Since 2010 the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has been established as a regional bloc of 33 sovereign LAC countries, representing roughly 600 million people and is now the European Union’s counterpart for the bi-regional partnership process.
The main European programme for Science, Innovation and Technologies, Horizon 2020, with its 80 B€ budget over seven years is considered an important instrument for the internationalization of Universities and other research stakeholders and a tool for Science diplomacy.
Horizon 2020 is “Open to the World”, meaning that all Countries of the world can participate in the calls for proposals, and are actually encouraged to join European partnership on specific topics. The specific priority for cooperation between the EU and CELAC Countries are decided and updated regularly at SOM level.
This article explores the bilateral and the regional dialogue political process, the roadmaps and action plans with the identified priorities for cooperation and the upcoming opportunities under the last three calls of Horizon 2020 for the CELAC Countries.

https://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/obies/issue/view/980/391