Name: The Human Condition: Checks and Balances
Start: 2025-05-21T19:00:00
End: 2025-05-21T21:00:00
Location: Newtown Inn and Sports Bar

Investigate the flip side of your routine lives, and consider what happens when justice, bias and safety take center stage. Our speakers navigate these tricky subjects to provide new insights and perspectives. Join us at 7pm at Newtown Inn to hear more!

Doing justice' - why do we sentence?

Ian Marder (Associate Professor in Criminology, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology)

We can sentence people who commit crime in different ways – and for different reasons. Learn about the justifications of sentencing and the implications for how do ‘do justice’ in Ireland.

What bias in machines can teach us about our own beliefs

Kevin D. Kiy (PhD Student at the Department of Psychology at Maynooth University)

How does the language we consume affect our thoughts? Understanding why human-like biases occur in language models may teach us more about ourselves and the beliefs we hold than the machines we study.

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