AI Expert Emilia Gómez Advises Considering Social Impacts and Women's Perspectives in Developing Responsible AI
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Emilia Gómez started her AI career developing algorithms for automatically describing aspects of music like melody, tonality, and emotion.
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She moved her focus to studying AI's impact on human behavior, like effects on jobs, decisions, and child development.
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Gómez is proud of her technical contributions to music information retrieval and providing scientific support for EU AI policies like the AI Act.
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She advises women entering AI that the field needs their perspectives and there are support groups, despite being male-dominated.
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Gómez believes responsible AI requires evaluating social impacts and mitigating risks before deployment, not just advancing capabilities.