🤖 The Challenges AI Represents for the LGBT Community

Straight Friendly Global

Technological advancements, in particular Artificial Intelligence (AI), are moving in a fast way in our world. Some of the advancements made public interest or even had a public debate around it, but there are some advancements that we are not even aware of, focusing on Artificial Gender Recognition that concerns that the LGBT communities are facing today. In this Episode, Michael Ross, the host of Straight Friendly Global and Jonathan Elkhoury, the production assistant of SFG, try to shed some light on these technological advancements, on the ethical issues they raise and on some of the proposed solutions that are being debated on in the European Union parliament and the Academy. Michal and Jonathan speak with two different scholars on this episode, firstly with Prof. Kobi Gal a researcher and teacher on the faculties at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the University of Edinburgh. Prof. Gal will shear with us what is AI to begin with and the ethical debate around its usage today by governments or the private sector. The second speaker for this episode is Dr. Yuri Guaiana the secretary general of LGBTI Liberals of Europe and a Senior Campaigner at All Out. With Dr. Guaiana Michael and Jonathan will ignite a liberal debate about AI advancements and the steps his organisation is leading in the EU Parliament. He will share examples and ways to prevent the miss-usage of AI and the ways it could lead to harm mainly Transgender people and the LGBT communities. Dr Yuri Guaiana has been leading All Out's work against the anti-gay crackdown in Chechnya - including being detained in Moscow with local activists, as they tried to deliver 2 million petition signatures to Russian authorities. Prof. Kobi Gal received his PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University. He studies the design of AI technologies for addressing real world problems in such domains as education, governance and negotiation.