ROUNDTABLE: RADBOUND UNIVERSITY NIJEMEGEN, FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER & SEX IN MEDICAL AI
Pin Lean is an invited expert at this roundtable symposium, with other experts working at the nexus of feminist / queer theory, health and medicine, and technology / AI, to critically discuss current developments and concerns pertaining to the use of AI for medical gender equity.
In recent history, biomedical research has focused primarily on men, resulting in poorer health care for women and for non-binary, transgender and intersex people. Efforts to mitigate this bias are ongoing, but these continue to face the challenge of addressing diversity without essentializing. All too often, sex differences are still conceptualized as a strict binary, in isolation from gender, and without intersectional awareness. The use of AI techniques to advance medical equity must also grapple with this challenge. In particular, if medical AI is used to study gender/sex differences we must have a critical understanding of how human categories are understood and can become reified when such techniques are used, and what the implications of this might be both within and beyond the realm of health and medicine.
SYMPOSIUM: The Digitalization of EU Borders and the Production of Vulnerabilities
Pin Lean will be part of the panel titled “The colonial legacies of border digitalization”. This panel focuses on the racial hierarchies and power relations as produced by border technologies, EU migration politics and policies and surveillance apparatuses. Taking Europe’s colonial legacies as the premise for this conversation, this panel seeks to unravel the manner in which racialized vulnerabilities and marginalities are produced at the intersection of AI technologies, so-called migration management, and (border) surveillance. The goal is to shed light on the entanglements of (neo)colonial border regimes, digital technology, and larger geopolitical processes of Othering.
In particular, due to Pin Lean’s expertise, questions that will further be considered include:
How are the digitalization of borders and the use of AI technologies in the migration and asylum context rooted in and a continuation of colonial practices of Othering? And, how do AI technologies in the context of migration and asylum reinforce and produce vulnerabilities along lines of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, education and class?
International Congress: Towards a Responsible Development of the Metaverse, University of Alicante
Pin Lean is a panelist in the section titled Content and Conduct Moderation in the Metaverse. Her presentation is titled ‘Safeguarding Virtual Spaces for Children: Addressing Content Policing and Moderation in the Metaverse to Combat Grooming and Sexual Assault’. As the Metaverse emerges as a ubiquitous virtual environment, offering unprecedented opportunities for social interaction, creativity, and commerce, it also presents novel challenges in ensuring the safety and well-being of its users, especially children. Alarming trends have indicated the concerning phenomena that minors are being groomed in these virtual spaces, where sexual predators exploit virtual spaces to manipulate and exploit vulnerable individuals, often under the guise of friendship or mentorship.
Despite growing awareness of these issues, the policing of content and moderation within the Metaverse remains woefully inadequate. Existing mechanisms often fall short in effectively detecting and addressing harmful behaviors, leaving users vulnerable to exploitation and trauma. Pin Lean argues that addressing this deficiency requires a multi-faceted approach that combines technological innovation, robust regulatory frameworks, and community-driven initiatives.
Whatnext.Law & Vieira de Almeida Annual Conference on Spaces of the Future
Pin Lean is Keynote Speaker for the Annual Conference with the theme, Spaces of the Future. Pin Lean’s talk is titled Decolonizing and Defragmenting Future Spaces: Rethinking Regulatory Trends and Frameworks. It essentially focuses on current realities and complexities around digital citizenship using a decolonized lens; identifying the fragmentation of our physicial digital, virtual and social worlds and their consequential challenges and risks; and taking current regulatory trends and shaping them into robust steps, providing for an inclusive development of our future ‘digital citizenship’ in future world spaces.
European Society of Endocrinology/ European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology
Synopsis:
Public seminar on legal and regulatory frameworks, ethical issues, and risks/benefits of AI-driven technologies in medicine and health. Focused on the topic of using AI in diagnostics and treatment of endocrine diseases, particularly if it involves medical devices for endocrine diseases.
NOVA University School Of Law
Synopsis:
Public lecture on privacy and data protection of soulbound tokens in Web3.0 DeSoc and Metaverse. Legal issues of decentralised digital identification, data protection, and privacy in Web3.0 and the Metaverse; particularly Soulbound tokens (SBTs) as a means of achieving a fully decentralised society (DeSoc) in Web3.0. SBTs have been presented as the change-maker for a fully decentralised Web3.0.
Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, XVI Interautonomous Conference On The Legal Protection of Patients. Science and Data as Ingredients for the Transformation of Healthcare Organisations
Synopsis:
Keynote Speech on hidden figures and invisibility of biases in AI-driven technologies. Algorithmic and data biases of AI systems in health, leading to gender data gaps and under-representation of women’s health conditions. A review of the EU AI Act, the Council of Europe Zero Draft Framework on AI, Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law, and other EU-level horizontal directives that address gender inequalities in policy and legislation; suggested recommendations (data feminism) for future policy actions.