AI in Social Welfare with Haiyi Zhu

Join us as we chat with Professor Haiyi Zhu about the complex challenges of applying AI to social welfare domains like homelessness and child welfare. Discover why it's crucial to meaningfully involve stakeholders in the development of AI systems aimed at addressing these important societal issues.

 

Links: 

• Professor Zhu’s Personal Website, containing all of her papers: https://haiyizhu.com/
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09743 (explores various stakeholder perspectives on AI usage in homelessness)
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3491102.3501831 (how workers reduced racial disparity in child welfare screening processes)
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3531146.3533177 (investingating alternatives to predictive models in child welfare)
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3313831.3376783 (integrating community values in a ML algorithm used by Wikepedia)
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3357236.3395528 (how to navigate algorithmic trade-offs for designers)