Rumman Chowdhury
Data and Social Scientist / Global Lead for Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Accenture
San Francisco, California, USA / Bangladeshi
👩 she/her/hers
🎓 Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, M.S. in Quantitative Methods of the Social Sciences from Columbia University, B.S. in Management Science and Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
😁 Rumman launched the X Institute where refugees learn data science and marketing skills to find freelance jobs.
Rumman led the design of the Fairness Tool that is used to identify and mitigate bias in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
ABOUT HER WORK
Rumman has said, “When I think of AI or data science, I literally think of it as information about people meant to understand trends in human behavior.” It can be difficult to understand how AI makes the decisions it does. This is where the Fairness Tool comes in. It can help businesses understand where the data they are collecting may be biased and give suggestions on how to fix that.
WATCH & DISCUSS
Video: What is Responsible AI?
What is bias in data and what data might be biased?
Why is it important to minimize bias in the data that AI systems use?
OTHER RESOURCES
ARTICLES
About Rumman (from Rumman’s website)
California’s Coolest Data Scientist (M.M.LaFleur)
Can Artificial Intelligence Play Nice (The Verge)
5 Q’s for Rumman Chowdhury (Center for Data Innovation)
Tackling the Challenges of Ethics in AI (written by Rumman)
Auditing Algorithms for Bias (written by Rumman and Narendra Mulani for Harvard Business Review)
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
AI Bingo Teacher-guided lesson/part of MIT AI + Ethics Curriculum
Minecraft Hour of Code: AI for Good (requires download) / Lesson Plan
ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELF
