CS Seminar: Sarah Cen

Description

Sarah Cen, a doctoral student in the MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, will give a talk titled "Paths to AI Accountability" for the Department of Computer Science.

Abstract:

We have begun grappling with difficult questions related to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), including: What rights do individuals have in the age of AI? When should we regulate AI and when should we abstain? What degree of transparency is needed to monitor AI systems? These questions are all concerned with AI accountability: determining who owes responsibility and to whom in the age of AI.

In this talk, I will discuss the two main components of AI accountability, then illustrate them through a case study on social media. Within the context of social media, I will focus on how social media platforms filter (or curate) the content that users see. I will review several methods for auditing social media, drawing from concepts and tools in hypothesis testing, causal inference, and large language models.