With more than 200 visitors over two days, the 2019 GES Program Summit was a huge success! This year's theme, Socio-Cultural and Political Implications of Artificial Intelligence, engaged the Waterloo community in important conversations about the impacts of Artificial Intelligence, such as automation of jobs, corporate ownership, biases of algorithms and privacy concerns.
Students contributed toward the development of meaningful responses to these timely global issues with Interactive Exhibitions and Project Presentations.
Our Program Director and Course Instructors worked together to host a Roundtable discussion and two Keynote speeches by this year's Jarislowsky Fellows, Mimi Onuoha and David Jones.
A big thank you to our Guest Speakers, the 2019 Jarislowsky Fellows, Instructors and Students for your hard work in making the GES Program Summit a success!
Read the report: "The Dichotomies of AI: Thoughts from the Global Engagement Summit on the Socio-Cultural and Political Implications of AI by Carleigh Cartmell, PhD Candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Summit Opening Remarks and Roundtable
Doug Peers, Dean of Arts, UWaterloo
John Ravenhill, Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Ian Milligan and Marcel O'Gorman, GES Program Instructors
Roundtable Speakers: Mimi Onuoha, Diane Reynolds, Branka Marijan, and David Jones
Moderator: Sarah McKenzie
Keynote: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
David Jones, 2019 Jarislowsky Fellow
Introduction: Jasmin Habib, GES Program Director
Keynote: What is Missing is Still There
Mimi Onuoha, 2019 Jarislowsky Fellow
Introduction: Jasmin Habib, GES Program Director
Introduction of Student Presentations
Professor Ian Milligan and Professor Marcel O'Gorman
Guilt, Machines, and Confession: Trust in the Digital Age
Arturo Salek, Ekaterina Durmanova, Qianshu Wang, and Thomas Storwick
AI, will you work?
Aidan Power, Joshua Kwok, Keira Chadwick, Kristoff Malejczuk, Pat Duong, and Vanessa Krause
Mood: An Exploration of Emotion Detection Algorithms
Maria Cheng, Clair Hu, Steven Kong, Jaxon Lin, Kienna Shaw, and Kelly Zheng
Explaining Bias with Music
Stephanie Rempel, Andrew Welsh, Dina Amer, Jonathan Smith
AI: A People’s Perspective
Sydney Workman, Katherine Sebben, Viola Wang, Shuo Feng, and Rachel Hickey
Bias in the Black Box
Kamilah Ebrahim and Nicholas Johnston
ArtIfact: an overview of AI policy
Jenevieve Ayuste, Zameer Bharwani, Brooklyn Lester, Christine Wright, and Austin Tripp
Project Matthias
Joe Giuffre, Ayodeji Ige, Pia Medina, Claire Quong, Kuil Schoneveld, and Thomas Stroyan
Closing Remarks for Student Presentations
Jarislowsky Fellows Mimi Onuoha and David Jones, Professors Ian Milligan and Marcel O'Gorman, and 2019 GES Program Class