Algorithmic Bias

Algorithms and other forms of technology can assist with making decisions faster, but that does not necessarily mean that these decisions are fair. This event explores how algorithms can be racist and sexist. Professors Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Sandra Wachter will reflect on aspects of their work relating to AI and discrimination and how this may affect our daily lives, from our job applications to the political advertisements we see.

This webinar is free to attend and will be run using Zoom, so if you have not done so already, please download Zoom onto your device. The session will be recorded.

This event is being organised and chaired by members of the Oxford Law Black Alumni Network (OLBA Network).

Panellists

Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law at the Oxford Law Faculty, a Fellow of Magdalen College, and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law. His research focuses on technology, innovation policy, and the future of work in the European Union and beyond.

Professor Sandra Wachter is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow focusing on law and ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet and platform regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on profiling, inferential analytics, explainable AI, algorithmic bias, diversity, and fairness, as well as governmental surveillance, predictive policing, human rights online, and health tech and medical law. 

Chairs

Jasmine Bacchus is a recent graduate of Brown University where she obtained a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) with honors. Currently, she is pursuing her MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of fashion, technology & gaming.  Professionally, she has worked as a Legal Intern for Louis Vuitton and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Samuel Bailey is an attorney qualified to practice in the Caribbean and has experience on issues of race, gender, and equality. He completed a Bachelor of Laws at the University of the West Indies in 2017 and thereafter worked as a Judicial Counsel at the Caribbean Court of Justice involving issues of international, criminal and civil law. He recently completed a masters in law (BCL) at the University of Oxford and is currently pursuing an MBA at the Said Business School.

Valencia Scott earned her A.B from the University of California (UC), Davis, where she initially began working at the intersections of legal scholarship and advocacy, immigration, and incarceration via engagement with the UC Davis School of Law faculty and the university’s departments of Sociology and Anthropology. She is a Marshall Scholar currently pursuing her MSc at the Centre for Criminology, where she specialises on issues related to immigration and race, mass incarceration, the extra-legality of prison punishment, and the human rights violations of solitary confinement. She serves as OLBA’s Deputy President and currently works as a research assistant for the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) and Border Criminologies in the Faculty of Law.