Consideration of Human Values in the Design of Technology

Title: Consideration of Human Values in the Design of Technology

Abstract: AI is now commonplace technology, and the recent effort to design AI to align with human values is met with many technical challenges. In this talk, I argue that due to the complexity of how human values work in the real world and the immaturity of our design methodologies, value alignment is even harder that we think.

BIo: Edith Law is an Associate Professor and Director of the Augmented Intelligence Lab at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo. Previously, She was a CRCS postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters in Computer Science from McGill University and a B.Sc in Computer Science from University of British Columbia. She is broadly interested in social computing technology that coordinates small groups to large crowds, new models of interactions with machine intelligence, and how technology can be designed to foster and celebrate certain human values. The research conducted by Law and her students have received several best paper awards and honorable mentions at the CHI, CSCW and DIS conference. Law's work is funded by NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC-CIHR Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP) as well as the CFI-JELF program. Her recent research direction is focusing on the design of personal tools and collaboration systems for value discovery, articulation and negotiation.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Canada