Shion Guha

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U of T researchers developing AI system to tackle harmful social media content

May 12, 2023 | Data Sciences Institute, Schwartz Reisman Institute

What if we used artificial intelligence to combat such harmful content such as hate speech and misinformation? That’s the goal of a team of University of Toronto researchers who were awarded a Catalyst Grant by the Data Sciences Institute (DSI) to develop an AI system to address the marginalization of communities in data-centric systems – including social media platforms such as Twitter.