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User-Centric Gender Rewriting

MBZUAI · Invalid Date

NYU and NYU Abu Dhabi researchers are working on user-centric gender rewriting in NLP, especially for Arabic. They are building an Arabic Parallel Gender Corpus and developing models for gender rewriting tasks. The work aims to address representational harms caused by NLP systems that don't account for user preferences regarding grammatical gender. Why it matters: This research promotes fairness and inclusivity in Arabic NLP by enabling systems to generate gender-specific outputs based on user preferences, mitigating biases present in training data.

KAUST “Dear AI” campaign targets gender bias in AI, profiles Saudi women in tech

KAUST · Mar 8

KAUST is launching the "Dear AI" campaign and hackathon to address gender bias and under-representation of women and Saudi/Arab people in AI, after finding AI image tools return only 1% women for prompts like "imagine entrepreneur." The campaign calls for accurate representation in AI datasets from Saudi Arabia and beyond. KAUST notes that 47% of graduates in their AI academy are women. Why it matters: This campaign highlights the need for more inclusive AI training data and addresses gender imbalances in STEM fields in Saudi Arabia.