27th March 2025
📆 Date: 27 March 2025
👨🏻💻 Format: In-person
🌍 Location: Scandic Lerkendal Hotel, Klæbuveien 127 A 7031, Trondheim
⏳ Time: 9h – 17h CET
💂 Language: English
🏅 Certification: Certificate upon completion
AI has immense potential to transform industries like recruitment, but with great power comes great responsibility. How can we ensure AI-driven hiring is not just efficient but also fair, inclusive, and ethical?
For instance, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 displayed racial bias in hiring-related questions, ranking resumes in a way that favoured certain racial backgrounds. This highlights the urgent need for AI specialists to prioritize fairness when developing these tools.
To address this challenge, the BIAS Project invites AI specialists to
equipping you with the skills to build responsible AI in recruitment.
✅ Mitigate algorithmic bias to build equitable AI.
✅ Design fairer AI models using ethical frameworks like — GDPR and the AI Act.
✅ Use Value Sensitive Design (VSD) for ethical and inclusive AI solutions.
✅ Expand your Computer Sciences toolbox with bias detection and mitigation strategies for responsible AI.
🔹 Case studies: Explore real-world AI impacts on recruitment, learning from successes and challenges.
🔹 Hands-on practice: Work with AI tools to build fairer, more ethical hiring models.
🔹 Collaboration: Exchange insights with AI experts, HR professionals, and advocacy groups.
Content | Duration |
Welcoming and introduction | 09:00-09:25 |
What is a bias? Psychological & sociological underpinnings and self-reflection exercise | 09:25-10:05 |
Break | 10:05-10:15 |
Sociotechnical implications of AI and fairness approaches | 10:15-11:15 |
The policy framework | 11:15-11:55 |
Wrap-up and conclusions | 11:55-12:00 |
Lunch break | 12:00-14:00 |
Welcoming and agenda of the afternoon | 14:00-14:05 |
Operationalizing VSD and fairness approaches | 14:05-14:35 |
The Value Oriented Design Challenge: design your prototype — first part | 14:35-15:10 |
Break | 15:10-15:20 |
The Value Oriented Design Challenge: design your prototype — second part | 15:20-16:50 |
Wrap up, ex post questionnaire and conclusions | 16:50-17:00 |