Chelsea Barabas: Bias & Power in AI

In this episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Barabas a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab. We talk about her work on bias in the criminal justice system as well as her most recent work applying the concept of “studying up” from anthropology to the data science world.

Here are some of the links we refer to in the episode:

http://www.chelsbar.com

https://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/chelsea-barabas/

https://medium.com/@chelsea_barabas

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/pretrial-ai.html

https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca31.3.01/367

https://discardstudies.com/2016/08/08/ethnographic-refusal-a-how-to-guide/

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/421/tab-article-info