Event Description:
Join the AI Debate is a new webinar series hosted on last Tuesdays at 2p ET by WAIE+ where Hessie Jones and Mia Shah-Dand invite experts to discuss and debate critical topics in AI. By examining these issues from multiple perspectives, we help our audience get a fully informed view on issues that matter to 99% of humanity. This month, we will tackle the raging debate over whether to use Generative AI or not to use it.
The popularity of Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have raised many ethical questions ranging from the lack of consent for artists’ creations used in LLM training datasets to AI fueled plagiarism in classrooms. Artists have written open letters and testified in front of U.S. Congressional Committees demanding a stop to the unauthorized use of their work. Educators have also joined this fight by resisting the use of AI tools in classrooms and educational settings.
On the other hand, there are some who believe Generative AI can be used for good such as helping disabled folks access opportunities and empower those without coding skills to build technology products. Some content creators, writers, and artists also use Generative AI as an aid to get over the “blank page” syndrome and to boost their creativity.
Join us on Tuesday, August 26 at 2p ET as experts Beatriz González Mellídez and Bhaskar Mitra make the case for whether Generative AI is an opportunity or risk from the perspective of educators, content creators, software developers, and disability advocates.
Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2117545798220/WN_hEneSWPMTJe8n028HMdTQw
Guest Speaker/s Profile:
Beatriz González Mellídez is an inclusive user experience professional living in Cologne, Germany. She leads Accessibility and Digital Inclusion in Central Europe at Atos, and the GermanUPA Accessibility fronta11y.org project. She is part of the leadership council of IAAP DACH and a member of the IAAP Global Ethics Committee, where she represents and supports Accessibility Professionals, People with disabilities and people with cross-cultural and multilanguage backgrounds.
Beatriz has worked as a frontend developer, designer and UX consultant across several countries and in six languages. Her passion is problem solving for all, no exceptions, and she loves creating bridges among colleagues, peers and customers.
She's a Certified Accessible Documents Specialist (ADS) and Certified Professional Web Accessibility CPWA ( IAAP's WAS & CPACC), Certified User Requirements Engineer (CPUX Fl + CPUX-UR), and holds a Postgraduate study University Expert in Accessibility and Usability of Web contents (by the University of Alcalá de Henares). She loves to learn and exchange real life stories.
Learn more about Beatriz on LinkedIn.
Bhaskar Mitra is an information retrieval researcher based in Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on the development of machine learning models and benchmarks for information retrieval and the study of societal implications of information access technologies. He is currently serving as the ACM SIGIR Secretary and as an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Information System (TOIS) journal.
He has received several awards for his research, including two ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Awards (2024) for excellence in research and in community engagement. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College London.
Learn more about Bhaskar on LinkedIn.
🗓 Happening every last Tuesday of the month
⏰ 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
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