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Beyond the Hype: Practical AI Cases for Social Work and Education
Join us for this co-hosted CSWIR and SHL Digital seminar, led by one of the Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research’s current Visiting Research Fellows, Dr Chia-Lee Yang.
*Particularly of interest for those working around practical applications of AI!*
Beyond the Hype: Practical AI Cases for Social Work and Education
Speaker: Dr. Chia-Lee Yang (Principal Engineer & Head, Marketing and Promotion Group, National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC), National Institutions of Applied Research (NIAR), Taiwan)
When: Friday 19 September, 12-1PM
Where: Sissay Room (EH108), Essex House / Zoom
Register here! https://buytickets.at/universityofsussex14/1850163
This talk explores how artificial intelligence can meaningfully support low-resource communities in culturally and ethically grounded ways. Drawing on two real-world case studies from Taiwan—AI-assisted Indigenous language revitalisation and the detection of implicit gender bias in large language models (LLMs)—Dr Yang demonstrates how AI intersects with social science to both preserve underrepresented knowledge and expose structural limitations in model diversity. These cases reveal how AI can rapidly support the documentation of minority data, while also making visible the embedded biases and lack of diversity in current systems. Dr Yang, an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of computational and management sciences, advocates for earlier and deeper engagement from social scientists in shaping the direction of AI and embedding social values into its design and governance.
This event is co-hosted by the Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research and the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab.
Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research
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