Abeba Birhane
Senior Fellow in AI Ethics, Mozilla | Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin
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Algorithmic Injustice: A Relational Ethics Approach to AI Systems
Formulated the foundational relational cognitive framework critiquing the reduction of human social complexity into static statistical classification matrices, demonstrating how predictive AI disproportionately harms marginalized populations.
Requires regulatory and legislative enforcement to compel commercial organizations to adopt rigorous external auditing.
Multimodal Datasets: Misogyny, Pornography, and Malign Content in LAION-400M
Conducted the rigorous empirical safety audit of the LAION-400M multimodal dataset used to train models like Stable Diffusion, exposing widespread presence of non-consensual imagery, racist caricatures, and toxic associations in web-scraped training pairs.
Automated keyword and similarity filtering misses nuanced contextual harms without intensive manual human review.