July 25, 2019
“Fairwashing” and the Folly of ML Solutionism with Zachary Lipton - TWIML Talk #285
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)About this episode
Today we’re joined by Zachary Lipton, Assistant Professor in the Tepper School of Business. With a theme of data interpretation, Zachary’s research is focused on machine learning in healthcare, with the goal of assisting physicians through the diagnosis and treatment process. We discuss supervised learning in the medical field, robustness under distribution shifts, ethics in machine learning systems across industries, the concept of ‘fairwashing, and more.