“we are at a critical point in the global response to COVID-19 – we need everyone to get involved in this massive effort to keep the world safe.”
– WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen an outpouring of interest on the part of data scientists and AI practitioners wanting to make a contribution. At the same time, some of the resulting efforts have been criticized for promoting the spread of misinformation or being disconnected from the applicable domain knowledge.
In this discussion, we explore how data scientists and ML/AI practitioners can responsibly contribute to the fight against coronavirus and COVID-19.
Panelists:
- Rex Douglass, Director of MSSL, University of California San Diego
- Robert Munro, Computational linguist, advisor to WHO, extensive disaster response experience
- Lea Shanley, Senior Fellow with the Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Gigi Yuen-Reed, Distinguished Engineer, Data Sciences, IBM Watson Health
The resources mentioned in this conversation can be found here.