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AI in Public Services: Local Justice, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Scarce Societal Resource Allocation
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94550653164?pwd=cDUzR1hzMG9USkw5R2ozdFlFUFFtUT09
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 2:00-3:15 pm
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Abstract

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly used to aid decision-making about the allocation of scarce societal resources, for example housing for homeless people, organs for transplantation, and food donations. Recently, there have been several proposals for how to design these systems in ways that attempt to achieve some combination of fairness, efficiency, and incentive compatibility, while taking stakeholder preferences into account. In this talk I will give an overview of my group's research in this space, informed by the theories of local justice and of street level bureaucracy. I will discuss our work on characterizing and analyzing the efficiency, the fairness, and the distributive justice implications of human, machine, and human+machine decision-making in public service provision, with a particular focus on resources that serve those experiencing homelessness. I will give a peak into theoretical, empirical, and experimental results from our recent papers.

Bio
Sanmay Das is Professor of Computer Science and co-director of the Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership at George Mason University. He has broad interests across artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational social science. His recent work focuses on the use of AI in the allocation of scarce societal resources, with an eye towards the distributive justice implications of different policies and mechanisms. Das currently serves as chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the board of directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and a member of DARPA's ISAT study group. He was program co-chair of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) and the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), and associate program co-chair for the 2023 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). He will serve as General Co-Chair of AAMAS 2025. He has been recognized with awards for research, teaching, and service, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Department Chair Award for Outstanding Teaching at Washington University, and the Outstanding Service Award from the Computer Science Department at George Mason University. He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2023 for contributions to AI and economics, AI for social good, and for service to the profession. 
This talk is organized by Emily Dacquisto