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Abeba Birhane

Abeba Birhane

Keynote Speaker: Ethiopian Cognitive Scientist; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Expert

Abeba Birhane Biography

Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist, currently a Senior Advisor in AI Accountability at Mozilla Foundation and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She researches human behaviour, social systems, and responsible and ethical AI – work for which she was recently featured in Wired UK and TIME on the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI list.

Birhane’s work explores the challenges and pitfalls of automating human behaviour through critical examination of existing models and audits of large scale datasets used for training models. She demonstrated patterns of problematic data collection, labelling, and use of large scale image datasets like MIT’s 80 Million Tiny Images, which was taken down as a direct result of one of her audit papers. Her paper showed that these datasets – which were used to develop numerous algorithmic tools – encode racist, misogynist, and otherwise marginalising labels that cause downstream harms, especially towards people at the margins of society.

Birhane was awarded the 2019 NeurIPS Black in AI Best Paper Award, a 2020 VentureBeat AI Innovations in Computer Vision Award, a 2022 Fairness Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) Distinguished Paper Award, and a 2022 Lego Director’s Prize for her PhD thesis contribution, among many other honours.

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Abeba Birhane Videos

Robot Rights? Exploring Algorithmic Colonization with Abeba Birhane
Algorithmic Injustices and Relational Ethics with Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane - In defence of uncertainty | Code Mesh LDN 19

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What topics does Abeba Birhane speak about?

Abeba Birhane is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Technology, Ethics & Integrity, Business Ethics, Business, Leadership, Diversity, Influential Women, Women in Business, Futurism, Women, Female Leadership, Inspirational and Motivational.

Where does Abeba Birhane travel from?

Abeba Birhane generally travels from Dublin, Ireland and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

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Abeba Birhane is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Technology. The estimated speaking fee range to book Abeba Birhane for live events is $10,000 - $20,000, and for virtual events Below $10,000. Abeba Birhane generally travels from Dublin, Ireland and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Mutale Nkonde, Karen Palmer and Sharon Gai. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Abeba Birhane for an upcoming event.

Abeba Birhane Videos

Robot Rights? Exploring Algorithmic Colonization with Abeba Birhane
Algorithmic Injustices and Relational Ethics with Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane - In defence of uncertainty | Code Mesh LDN 19

Abeba Birhane Reviews

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