Siobhan Mackenzie Hall
smhall97.bsky.social
Siobhan Mackenzie Hall
@smhall97.bsky.social
🇿🇦 | Fairness in AI | University of Oxford | Deep Learning Indaba | Internships: Google DeepMind || Microsoft Research
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will make the deadline! 🤞
September 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
An absolute 🔥🔥panel today at the Centring Data in African AI workshop at #DLI2025.
August 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Joy Victor sharing the scary reality of (the lack of) data protection on the continent - social security numbers sold for as little as 7c.
August 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“A high profile individual’s social security number was sold for as little as 7c.
August 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
⚡️⚡️AI Ethics

💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding

💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.
August 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Lightning talks continued

❓How do you crowdsource when there is no crowd?

We need to rethink the "conventions" on how we create data.
August 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
💡 An appropriate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."
John Wilder Tukey
August 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
August 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Next up we have another amazing keynote from Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, PhD from Microsoft’s AI for Good lab presenting his talk “Problem-driven and data-centric AI for Africa”
August 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM