Artificial intelligence and hate speech: An online talk
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Artificial intelligence and hate speech will be discussed in an online talk to be held at 7 pm local time in Turkey on January 25, 2022.
Organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation, the online talk titled "Artificial intelligence and hate speech: Opportunities and risks" will discuss artificial intelligence and hate speech with Claudia von Vacano and Stefanie Ullmann as speakers and Berrin Yanıkoğlu as the moderator.
Recalling that "hate speech detection has primary importance in combating hate speech," the Foundation has underlined that "in recent years, technological advancements assign a significant role to artificial intelligence in detecting hate speech in the media."
Given that many issues still need to be discussed in hate speech studies despite these advancements, the online talk will try to find answer to a series of questions in this context, including the following:
What are the main reasons for using algorithms to detect hate speech? How successful are the algorithms at detecting hate speech? Can artificial intelligence replace humans in detecting hate speech? To what extent can artificial intelligence protect freedom of expression? Does artificial intelligence produce biased results in detecting hate speech? What are the effects of the data on the results? Can algorithms consider context when detecting hate speech?
Accordingly, in the online talk to be held with Claudia von Vacano from Berkeley D-Lab and Stefanie Ullmann from Center For Research in The Arts, Social Sciences And Humanities as speakers, their projects as part of hate speech detection studies and the advantages and disadvantages of detecting hate speech with artificial intelligence will be discussed.
The talk will focus on the strengths and potential aspects of the algorithms used in the detection of hate speech and the developments in this field with the contributions and questions of Berrin Yanıkoğlu from Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Data Analytics in Turkey.
While the event will be held via Zoom, there will be simultaneous interpretation in Turkish and English at the event. It will be broadcast live on the Foundation's YouTube, Facebook and Twitter accounts.
You can fill out the registration form to participate in the event.
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About Stefanie UllmannStefanie Ullmann is a postdoctoral research associate on the project Giving Voice to Digital Democracies: The Social Impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology, implemented at the Centre for the Humanities and Social Change, Cambridge University. Stefanie Ullmann's overall research interests and background are in functional linguistics, critical theory and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, new media and communication technologies as well as the instrumentalisation of language in states of socio-political conflict and crisis. Her most recent work has focused on quarantining online hate speech, misinformation, gender bias in machine translation, dynamic data statements and exploring counterspeech approaches to fighting hate speech. About Claudia von VacanoClaudia von Vacano leads the Cornell Center for Social Science Data Science Fellows Program and oversees core research support services within CCSS. Also, Vacano has worked as an executive director at D-Lab, Berkeley which provides cross-disciplinary resources for research in data intensive social science. The Online Hate Index (OHI) research project that is implemented at D-Lab, Vacano conducted research on understanding of hate speech on YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter. Her research focuses on computational social media research, hate speech, and diversity in data science, and in education policy more generally. About Berrin YanıkoğluBerrin Yanikoglu is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center of Excellence in Data Analytics (VERIM), at Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from Boğaziçi University, Turkey in 1988 and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, USA in 1993. Prof. Yanikoglu worked at Rockefeller University, Xerox Imaging Systems and IBM Almaden Research Center, before joining Sabancı University in 2000. Her research interests lie in artificial intelligence and machine learning areas. Her current interests include automatic detection of hate speech in social media. |
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