The AI ‘Black Box’

A presentation at The Conf in August 2019 in São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil by Carla Vieira

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The Artificial Intelligence “Black-box” Carla Vieira @carlaprvieira Ilustração: Hanne Mostard

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About me Carla Vieira Information Systems – USP Artificial Intelligence Evangelist Community Manager perifaCode @carlaprvieira @carlaprv@hotmail.com

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Tech Conferences

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data bias privacy ethics law

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We need to talk less about Artificial Intelligence hype … … and more about how we are using this technology.

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#1 Google Photos

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#2 Gender Shades Article http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a.pdf

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“Whether AI will help us reach our aspirations or reinforce the unjust inequalities is ultimately up to us.” Joy Buolamwini

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#3 Tweet

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#4 Google’s Algorithm

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• 46% false positives for African American • African American authors are 1.5 times more likely to be labelled “offensive” https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~msap/pdfs/sap2019risk.pdf

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#5 COMPAS Software Software COMPAS

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https://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/trusted-ai/diversity-in-faces/

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Artificial Intelligence needs to learn from the real world. Creating a smart computer is not enough, you need to teach it the right thing. https://about.google/stories/gender-balance-diversity-important-tomachine-learning/?hl=pt-BR

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Gender Gap in Artificial Intelligence “Only 22% of AI professionals globally are female, compared to 78% who are male.” (The Global Gender Gap Report 2018 - p.28)

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Bias Human Bias Technology

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Even though these decisions affect humans, to optimize task performance ML models often become too complex to be intelligible to humans: black-box models

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INPUT BLACK BOX OUTPUT

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INPUT BLACK BOX OUTPUT

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JUSTICE MATH

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“This new law is a complete shame for our democracy.” Louis Larret Chahine Co-founder PREDICTICE https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2019/06/04/france-bans-judge-analytics-5-years-in-prison-for-rule-breakers/

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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/14/tech/san-francisco-facial-recognition-ban/index.html

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How to open this black-box? EXPLAINABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (XAI) TRANSPARENCY TRUST

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XAI intends to create a new suite of ML techniques that produce more interpretable ML models

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Accuracy vs. Interpretability trade-off

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Explainability Pre-modelling explainability Explainable modelling Goal Understand/describe data used to develop models Goal Develop inherently more explainable models Methodologies • Exploratory data analysis • Dataset description standardization • Dataset summarization • Explainable feature engineering Methodologies • Adopt explainable model family • Hybrid models • Joint prediction and explanation • Architectural adjustments • Regularization Post-modelling explainability Goal Extract explanations to describe pre-developed models Methodologies • Perturbation mechanism • Backward propagation • Proxy models • Activation optimization

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Post-modelling explainability The proposed taxonomy of the post-hoc explainability methods including the four aspects of target, drivers, explanation family, and estimator.

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Post-modelling explainability first a perturbation model is used to obtain perturbed versions of the input sequence. Next, associations between input and predicted sequence are inferred using a causal inference model. Finally, the obtained associations are partitioned and the most relevant sets are selected.

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http://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/download-de-dados

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If we want AI to really benefit people, we need to find a way to get people to trust it.

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https://serenata.ai/ https://brasil.io/home https://colaboradados.github.io/

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Less machines that are going to take our jobs and more about what technology can actually achieve…

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The choices we are making today about Artificial Intelligence are going to define our future.

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Thank you! Carla Vieira @carlaprvieira carlaprv@hotmail.com

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Useful links − AI NOW − Racial and Gender bias in Amazon Rekognition − Diversity in faces (IBM) − Google video – Machine Learning and Human Bias − Visão Computacional e Vieses Racializados − Machine Bias on Compas − Machine Learning Explainability Kaggle − Predictive modeling: striking a balance between accuracy and interpretability

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Useful links −Racismo Algorítmico em Plataformas Digitais: microagressões e discriminação em código −Metrics for Explainable AI: Challenges and Prospects −The Mythos of Model Interpretability −Towards Robust Interpretability with Self-Explaining Neural Networks −The How of Explainable AI: Post-modelling Explainability