Just a few more days before we kick off the Beirut AI University Hackathon 2020!

The hackathon is bringing together students from all over Lebanon to ideate, create and innovate to bring forward solutions for a more self-sustained Lebanon! Fifteen teams are joining in to build and propose AI solutions related to agriculture, economy, healthcare, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation. Teams of machine learning and software developers, business practitioners and domain specialists made up of Lebanon’s bright youth came together and we can’t wait to see the solutions they come up with.

Join us on Sunday June 7 for a live stream of our Closing Ceremony where you can watch our teams pitching their solutions to a panel of judges! We will also be announcing the top 3 winning teams!

To tune in on the event, make sure you are following our Facebook Page to be alerted with a notification! You can also follow our University Hackathon’s Facebook Event for more details.

Racial Bias In Artificial Intelligence

Recently there were many unnecessary losses of life that have forced many of us to openly confront ourselves on the matters of racism. It is no secret that racial biases are very deeply ingrained in our societies and consequently in our data. Bias in data in algorithms deployed for healthcare and criminal justice have been reported to unfairly mislabel people based on their race. Since we are starting to rely on AI to make decisions for us we have to be vigilant at fighting racial bias in our solutions.

We need to be aware of these biases and actively work to mitigate them when using AI for critical decision making.

It’s best that we become aware of such issues as early as possible to ensure that the solutions we put forward are as fair and equitable as possible. We are committed to ensure that Beirut AI is a safe space for everyone who is enthusiastic about AI and creating solutions to problems everyone faces on a daily basis.