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Ml-NYC Speaker Series & Happy Hour
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| With Daniel Bjrkegren (Prof., Columbia School of Int'l & Public Affairs). |
| Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Ave, Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium |
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Dec 10 (Wed) , 2025 @ 04:00 PM
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AI for Low-Income Countries
The ML in NYC Speaker Series + Happy Hour is excited to host Professor Daniel Bjrkegren as our December speaker! His talk will take place Wednesday, December 10 at 4pm at the Flatiron Institute. As always, there will be a reception afterward for all attendees.
Title: AI for Low-Income Countries
Abstract: Most AI investment is aimed at people who are already rich, educated, & online. What will AI mean for the billions of people who are not? In this talk, I'll show what happens when we deploy ML in one of the earliest AI for the poor use cases: digital credit scoring for people excluded from formal banks. I'll then turn to generative AI & how it could transform the delivery of education, health, & other services when bandwidth, data, & infrastructure are scarce. I'll close with open problems for ML: who is (and isn't) represented in training data, & how to rigorously measure whether technology does good or harm.
Bio: Daniel Bjrkegren is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA). He works on the economic implications of machine intelligence, particularly in low income countries. His field work is mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics & a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University, & a Bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Washington. In prior lives he coded the photo app for Microsoft's first smartphone & taught high school math along the Texas-Mexico border.
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Category: Science & Tech, High Tech
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