Governance Node Seminar - Vaiskak Belle, University of Edinburgh

Among the many ethical dimensions that arise in the use of ML technology, three stand out as immediate and profound: enabling the interpretability of the underlying decision boundary, addressing the potential for learned algorithms to become biased against certain groups, and capturing blame and responsibility for a system’s outcomes. In this talk, we advocate for a research program that seeks to bridge tractable (probabilistic) models for knowledge acquisition with rich models of autonomous agency that draw on philosophical notions of beliefs, intentions, causes and effects.