What does building a feminist AI look like? A conversation with Chayn
The Gender, MERL and AI Working Group at the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) is gathering on August 7, at 11 am EDT/5 pm CET for a conversation with Eva Blum-Dumontet, Head of Movement Building and Policy at Chayn.
Eva will be sharing more about one of their projects, which will be launched later this year, a “feminist AI initiative designed to empower survivors of image-based abuse to take down harmful online content”. The tool supports individuals who have been unable to remove their content through standard reporting channels by generating tailored takedown requests. In addition to showcasing the tool, Eva will demonstrate Chayn’s process of building a feminist AI that embeds their trauma-informed principles.
We’re excited to learn from Eva and welcome those interested in developing or working on AI using feminist principles to join us! Please register below (and make sure you sign up to join the NLP-CoP for more events like this!).
Get to know our speaker
Eva Blum-Dumontet is a tech and human rights policy expert specialising in the intersection of gender and technology. She is Head of Movement Building and Policy at Chayn, an organisation providing online resources to survivors of gender-based violence. She is currently leading the launch of a feminist AI tool, helping survivors with content takedown requests, and promoting the use of encryption as a feminist issue.
Prior to her role at Chayn, Eva held the position of Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, where she worked on the role of AI in scientific research. She also spent eight years at Privacy International as a Senior Researcher and Project Manager. Notably, her work on the data-sharing practices of menstruation apps led to significant changes in privacy protections for millions of users.
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