Every Friday in winter quarter the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering brings industry experts to speak about current issues in user experience (UX) research and design. All talks are free and open to the public. Students register for course credit with HCDE 521.
Talk title
AI on a Mission
Talk abstract
Technology companies and society as a whole are currently grappling with what it means to “do” AI in an ethical way. Mission-driven companies have an advantage in answering this question: our organizational mandates can provide us with concrete standards and actionable guidance on what kinds of AI-driven functionality to develop, how it should (and should not) be designed, and most importantly why it matters.
In this talk, I’ll describe how researchers and designers at Wikimedia draw on the organization's mission and values to prioritize our AI work, inform our design process, and evaluate the impact of what we build for Wikipedia and the global Wikimedia movement.
my bio About the speakerDr. Jonathan T. Morgan is a Senior Design Researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation. He works at the intersection of sociotechnical systems, peer production, and user experience. He holds a PhD in Human Centered Design & Engineering from the University of Washington. He teaches DATA 512: Human centered data science for the UW Data Science Master’s program. |