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SUMMARY:Workshop/The Ethics of Using Machine Learning in Professional Prac
 tice - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20161128T120000Z
DTEND:20161128T170000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Anne Alexander
DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from law\, 
 journalism and bio-medicine together with social scientists and computer s
 cientists to explore the ethical questions raised by the growing use of ma
 chine learning in processes of information discovery\, analysis and decisi
 on-making.\nRecent examples include the deployment of machine learning met
 hods in the development of a proprietary digital tool used to generate ris
 k assessments which inform judges in US parole hearings\, the use of bots 
 in international newsrooms to support editors and journalists’ selection
  of stories for publication and Google DeepMind's partnership with the NHS
  to build an app for medical practitioners treating kidney disease.  Are s
 uch cases indicative of a wider trend towards the delegation of decision-m
 aking to autonomous computer systems in areas of activity which were previ
 ously the preserve of human experts?\n\nPresentations and discussions at t
 he symposium will explore the implications for ethics and governance of in
 tegrating machine learning and other algorithms into wider computational s
 ystems and workflows and how this process relates to evolving social proce
 sses of decision-making and accountability in professional practice in law
 \, journalism and bio-medicine.\n\nThis workshop is by application or invi
 tation only.
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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