How Does AI Reflect Society, with Dr. Maria Antoniak

Описание: AI doesn’t just process text — it takes in our cultures, reflects our hierarchies, and can make existing power structures even stronger.

In this episode of Women in AI Research, Jekaterina Novikova and Malikeh Ehgaghi speak with Dr. Maria Antoniak (Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder) about inclusivity in AI, the dynamics of cultural representation, what trust in AI really means, why LLMs tend to homogenize research cultures, and what maternal healthcare reveals about the deepest ethical challenges in this field.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction to Women in AI Research Podcast
00:33 Guest introduction - Dr. Maria Antoniak
02:58 Inclusivity in AI
05:55 AI for Humanists: Bridging the Gap
08:29 Connection to Ukraine: Values and Lessons
13:45 Trust and Privacy in AI Interactions
14:39 Personal Disclosures in AI Conversations
22:38 Taxonomy of Sensitive Information
25:16 Researcher Perspectives on AI Usage
28:52 Cultural Representation in AI Systems
35:52 Cultural NLP and Its Challenges
37:42 Evaluating Cultural Alignment in AI
43:09 Cultural Evaluation Methods in Research
47:41 AI in Maternal and Reproductive Health
51:05 Guiding Principles for AI in Maternal Health
54:10 Engaging Stakeholders in Healthcare AI
01:02:35 Enhancing Agency in Healthcare AI
01:06:22 Learning from Maternal Health Traditions

REFERENCES:
17:25 Trust No Bot (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11438)
24:14 A Large-Scale Analysis of Public-Facing, Community-Built Chatbots on Character.AI (https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13354)
28:57 LLMs as Rsearch Tools (https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025)
36:03 Culture is Not Trivia (https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12057)
37:48 Research Borderlands (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784)
50:54 NLP for Maternal Healthcare (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/36...)
01:00:03 Data Feminism (https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/)
01:04:10 Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04226)
01:09:21 Empire of AI (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...)

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