SAILS Society Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences on LinkedIn: Biodiversity | Arise Biodiversity | Leiden I The Netherlands (2024)

You can now register on:https://lnkd.in/ek6fPq4EHERITAGE; FROM PHYSICAL TO DIGITAL 27 JUNE 2024 | 14:00-17:00 VOSSIUS ZAAL – UNIVERSITY LIBRARYAn exciting symposium which is a collaboration between the Faculties of Humanities, Archaeology and SAILS.The theme of this meeting will be ‘Material Heritage: From Physical to Digital’. Within this theme, we will explore the digitisation of heritage and the opportunities it offers for applications in research and heritage institutions. The aim is to assess existing initiatives and foster new academic partnerships among researchers in Leiden interested in this theme. The program will include a series of lectures, followed by a panel discussion.The programme:14:00 - 14:10Introduction by Marco de Niet - UBL14:10 - 14:40Alex Brandsen – Digital Archaeology - How to facilitate Information Retrieval in Heritage Data - Building a Search Engine for Archaeological Field Reports14:40 - 15:10Francien Bossema – LIACS / CWI- Title TBC15:10 - 15:40Peter Verhaar – LUCAS & UBL – Collection as Data15:40 - 15:55Leo Cao – LUCAS Google Arts & Culture and the Platformisation of Digital Cultural Heritage15:55 - 16:10Tessa de Boer – LUIH Dear Digital Diary; an Exploration of the Huydecoper Diaries (1648-1704) through Handwritten Text Recognition.16:10 - 16:45 Panel Discussion – Moderated by Joost Batenburg16:45 - 17:00 Summary 17:00 - 18:00 Networking opportunity with drinks and nibbles ?

Join us on Monday 10th June at 12 noon (online only), for a fascinating presentation by Rüya Koçer (FSW/Social Sciences) titled ‘The unique dynamic nature of age as a sensitive characteristic in fairness analyses in AI-based decision-making systems’AbstractIn recent years, a multitude of researchers have been deeply engaged in assessing the ethical dimensions of algorithmic fairness, transparency, and accountability. This study is an attempt to expose the inner workings of an algorithmic decision-making system in an empirically grounded simulation and show how age and gender bias function within the model. By referring to theoretical concepts of agency and accumulation of inequalities, we pose a thesis that when quantified by an algorithm, the ageing of an individual poses a risk of devaluation of actor’s agency and thus limiting chances for influencing one’s position against the algorithmic decision-making. In order to empirically demonstrate the theoretical arguments, we use a generative social science approach. Two interrelated conclusions we attain are that:1. Age appears in AI-based decision systems as unique characteristic which is both dynamic and arbitrary. While people can ‘fight back’ against the adversity generated by other sensitive characteristics, age would still redefine the outcome of this struggle at crucial points in the life course. This is the dynamic impact of age that directly affects the meaning of human agency. On the other hand, while being a dynamic factor, age is also quite arbitrary: the way in which age categories are defined has serious implications: completely opposite outcomes may be generated by an algorithm on the basis of different categorizations of age, and this can happen without changing the overall performance of the algorithm. This is the potentially harmful arbitrariness embedded into the age as a sensitive characteristic.2. Therefore classical understanding of human agency as being a correction force in the human life course (adults achieving success despite highly adverse childhood conditions) will need to be re-considered in the world, where agency is partially or entirely outsourced to non-human agents.Feel free to share this invite with anyone who might also be interested in this subject.------Upcoming seminar24 JuneTom Heyman (FSW)The impact of ChatGPT on human data collectionDuring Juli and August there will be a summer break, but we will be back in September with more intriguing seminars!For more SAILS events: https://lnkd.in/eMd2KdTVThe events archive can be found: https://lnkd.in/e8556hqc

Come and join the SAILS community in the next Lunch Time Seminar on Monday 10th June at 12 noon, online. Rüya Koçer (Social Sciences) will share his insights. For a link to this and other events, please subscribe to our email list: https://lnkd.in/eMd2KdTVOr contact SAILS HQ at SAILS at LIACS dot leidenuniv dot nl

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YAL and JUL Science meets Art expositionDuring this season of interdisciplinarity, we have seen several ways arts and science can interact with each other. In this event, we will exhibit several very nice projects on the boundary between science and arts. Our partners in this event are LIACS Mediatechnology, and ReCNTR, who have contributed the projects in this space. This is a unique opportunity to see what great work on the boundary between science and arts is happening at Leiden University and interact with the artists to learn more about their projects, or these types of projects in general.Please register here: https://lnkd.in/eGkyrRMMProgram:15:00-16:00: Plenary session in which the scientists and artists will explain the creations (2.27)16:00-18:00: Exposition, in which we will explore the creations from close by (exposition rooms)18:00 onward: informal drinks (off program) for those who are interested in joining us== Summary ==What: YAL and JUL Science meets Arts expositionWhen: June 11, 15:00-18:00Where: Lipsius building, Cleveringaplaats 1Rooms: Gather in 2.27, also 2.07, 2.08, 2.17, 2.23, 2.24===

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Please open your diary and reserve the afternoon of Thursday 27Th June, 14.00 – 17.00 hrs for an exciting symposium: ‘Heritage; from Physical to Digital’. This is a collaboration between the Faculties of Humanities, Archaeology and SAILS and will take place in the new Gorlaeus Building in room BW 0.39. It will be followed by a networking opportunity with drinks and nibbles at the Fusion.The theme of this meeting will be ‘Material Heritage: From Physical to Digital’. Within this theme, we will explore the digitisation of heritage and the opportunities it offers for applications in research and heritage institutions. The aim is to assess existing initiatives and foster new academic partnerships among researchers in Leiden interested in this theme. The program will include a series of lectures, followed by a panel discussion.Speakers include Alex Brandsen (Archaeology), Francien Bossema (CWI) and Peter Verhaar (Humanities & UBL). More details will be made available soon. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact me.Kind regards from the organising team,Karin de Wild (Humanities)Martin Berger (Archaeology)Joost Batenburg (LIACS)Liselore Tissen (Humanities & TUDelft)Mischa Hautvast (SAILS)

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Starting in a few minutes: The SAILS Lunch Time Seminar by Elaine van Ommen (Naturalis) Online only. Today, Monday 27th May at 12 noon. All welcome!