Emma Baumhofer

ALT screenshot of this link until the end of the image: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023 "March 31, 2023 Tl;dr: The harms from so-called AI are real and present and follow from the acts of people and corporations deploying automated systems. Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices." Image is "A yellow window with three images. On the right is an under water photo of a single bright blue and yellow tropical fish. The two on the left are simplifications created based on a decsion tree algorithm. The work illustrates a popular type of machine learning model: the decision tree. Decision trees work by splitting the population into ever smaller segments. I try to give people an intuitive understanding of the algorithm. I also want to show that models are simplifications of reality, but can still be useful, or in this case visually pleasing."