{"id":9212,"date":"2021-04-08T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:55:56","slug":"new-for-fall-2021-lti-350g-bias-interrogating-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/2021\/04\/08\/new-for-fall-2021-lti-350g-bias-interrogating-the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"New for Fall 2021:  LTI 350G, Bias: Interrogating the Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries presents a new Grand Challenge course for fall 2021 &#8211;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>LTI 350G, Bias: Interrogating the Archive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications are becoming more prevalent in our society with algorithms assisting and\/or making decisions on college admission, employment, lending, parole and sentencing among other things. Because AI both learns and amplifies biases, the issue of biased datasets is a grand challenge with broad (social justice) implications.<\/p>\n<p>This Grand Challenge seminar examines bias in datasets, including sources, implications, and how individual actors can exacerbate and\/or work to combat these problems. &nbsp;Students will further explore bias in one large dataset maintained by the university, it\u2019s institutional records collection. &nbsp;URI\u2019s university archives will serve as both subject and experiential learning lab.<\/p>\n<p>Successful completion of this course provides General Education credits in:<br \/>\nB4: Information Literacy<br \/>\nD1: Integrate and Apply<br \/>\nGC: &nbsp;&nbsp;Grand Challenge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> &nbsp;Karen W. Morse<br \/>\n<strong>Days and times:<\/strong> Tues., Thurs.; 2-3:15 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Galanti Lounge, Carothers Library<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisite:<\/strong> Junior standing or permission of instructor.<br \/>\nContact <a href=\"mailto:kwmorse@uri.edu\">kwmorse@uri.edu<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries presents a new Grand Challenge course for fall 2021 &#8211;&nbsp; LTI 350G, Bias: Interrogating the Archive Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications are becoming more prevalent in our society with algorithms assisting and\/or making decisions on college admission, employment, lending, parole and sentencing among other things. Because AI both learns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1586,"featured_media":9218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9242,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}