Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society weekly seminar series

Title: Don’t Expl-AI-n Yourself: Exploring ‘Healthy’ Models in Machine Learning for Health
Presented By: Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi

Despite the importance of human health, we do not fundamentally understand what it means to be healthy. Health is unlike many recent machine learning success stories—e.g., games or driving—because there are no agreed-upon, well-defined objectives. In this talk, Marzyeh Ghassemi will discuss the role of machine learning in health, argue that the demand for model interpretability is dangerous, and explain why models used in health settings must also be “healthy.” She will focus on a progression of work that encompasses prediction, time series analysis, and representation learning.