Writing
I started the organization Fair Bytes to advance AI ethics education for all ages through byte-sized content & resources. As part of Fair Bytes, I've written many short (byte-sized) pieces about research and resources related to fairness and ethics of AI.
I also like to write fiction and occasionally write about school, life, and other topics.
Explaining Machine Learning Predictions and Building Trust with LIME
A technique to explain how black-box machine learning classifiers make predictions
Machine Learning’s Obsession with Kids’ TV Show Characters
Elmo, Bert, and Marge (Simpson) aren’t just your favorite TV characters growing up — they’re also machine learning & NLP models
Should You Take A Gap Year During COVID-19?
A guide for college students on factors to consider and options for what to do in the next school yeargap
We Need to Change How Image Datasets are Curated
Why many gold-standard computer vision datasets, such as ImageNet, are flawed
Reading List for Fairness in AI Topics
Papers, books, and resources to learn about fairness in vision, NLP, and more
New Way to Measure Crowdsourcing Bias in Machine Learning
An overview of how to use counterfactual fairness to quantify the social bias of crowd workers
Why We Need AI Literacy
Reason #5: Just because you CAN develop an algorithm, doesn’t mean you SHOULD
How Biased is GPT-3?
Despite its impressive performance, the world’s newest language model reflects societal biases in gender, race, and religion
Best K-12 Resources to Teach AI Ethics
Curricula, projects, and even fiction books to empower students to learn about AI ethics
NLP Bias Against People with Disabilities
An overview of how biases against mentions of disabilities are embedded in natural language processing tasks and models
Fair Bytes: A Deeper Lens into Fairness in AI
Understanding algorithmic fairness and ethics is more imperative than ever
All the Blue Light We Cannot See: My Return to Online School
As we undergo such chaotic times together, a virtual ecosystem gives us the chance to strengthen the bonds we’ve already forged in physical presence.
Night and Day
Tibby zaps awake from her evening nap at seven o’clock, just like any other day. She stretches her joints and takes eleven steps forward. On the tenth, she stumbles into a chair.