How can we govern AI at all levels - local, national, and global? How can public feedback help create and shape AI to serve humanity? This event discusses the current trends in understanding and regulating AI, with luminaries from industry and policy in discussion on applied methods of AI governance, including the recent White House sponsored Generative AI Red teaming exercise held at DEFCON AI Village.
Join Dr. Rumman Chowdhury and Jutta Williams, co-founders of Humane Intelligence, in conversation with confirmed guests Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, Ayaz Minhas, AI Privacy Policy Manager at Meta, Adelina Cooke, Global AI Policy Lead at Google Cloud, Anna Gressel, Counsel at Paul White, Jiahao Chen, Responsible AI Consultant and Auditor, and Areeq Chowdhury, Head of Data Policy at the Royal Society, John Dickerson (Chief Scientist, Arthur), Evi Fuelle (Global Policy Director, Credo), and Donie O’Sullivan (CNN correspondent). This event is made free, with food and drinks provided, courtesy of Arthur and Credo AI.
Food and drink provided. This gathering is made entirely free through the support of Credo AI and Arthur.
AGENDA
6:00-6:20: Doors open, mix & socialize; food & drink. Arrive at 6pm or earlier to ensure a seat!
6:20-6:25: Welcome remarks: Sandra Khalil & David Ryan Polgar
6:30-7:00: Panel: How public feedback informs policy Policy panel: Amandeep Singh Gill, Areeq Chowdhury, Reva. Moderated by Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
7:00-7:20: Panel: Building collaboratively - Industry panel: Ayaz Minhas, Adelina Cooke, Cass Matthews. Moderated by Jutta Williams
7:20-7:25: Break
7:25-7:50: Panel: Testing and Certifying AI in the real world moderated by Jiahao Chen.
7:50-8:10 Panel: What is the future of AI governance? Donie O’sullivan w/ Jutta Williams and Rumman Chowdhury
8:10-8:30: Mixer
8:30: Betaworks closes, Informal mixer continues at Brass Monkey if you are interested!
READ
‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in AI (The Guardian)
Meet the hackers who are trying to make AI go rogue (The Washington Post)
About Rumman Chowdhury
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, creating cutting-edge socio-technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI. She is an active contributor to discourse around responsible technology with bylines in the Atlantic, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIT Technology Review and VentureBeat.
Dr. Chowdhury currently runs Parity Consulting, Parity Responsible Innovation Fund, and is a Responsible AI Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Minderoo Center for Democracy and Technology at Cambridge University and a visiting researcher at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Previously, Dr. Chowdhury was the Director of META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability) team at Twitter, leading a team of applied researchers and engineers to identify and mitigate algorithmic harms on the platform. Prior to Twitter, she was CEO and founder of Parity, an enterprise algorithmic audit platform company. She formerly served as Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence. In her work as Accenture’s Responsible AI lead, she led the design of the Fairness Tool, a first-in-industry algorithmic tool to identify and mitigate bias in AI systems. Dr. Chowdhury co-authored a Harvard Business Review piece on it’s influences and impact.
Dr. Chowdhury is dedicated to cultivating and growing the next wave of technology-forward companies enabling the responsible use of emerging technologies. She is a General Partner (and founder) of the Parity Responsible Innovation venture capital fund. She also serves as a mentor for the Creative Destruction Lab and as a board member of Startups and Society.
Dr. Chowdhury is deeply engaged in AI global policy, serving as a board member of the UK Center for Data Ethics and Innovation, and on UNESCO’s Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. She has helped shape policy - as advisor to the UK House of Lords Parliamentary group on AI, in her testimony to the FTC, New York City Algorithmic Commission, the UN, OECD, Partnership on AI, and other global AI and ethics organizations.
She serves on multiple boards, including Oxford University’s Commission on AI and Governance, the UK’s Center for Data Ethics and Governance, AI4All, a group dedicated to drawing underrepresented groups into STEM, the SSRC’s Just Tech Advisory Group, the University of Virginia’s Data Science Program, and Patterns, a data science journal by the publishers of Cell.
Rumman has been featured in international media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, NPR, MIT Sloan Magazine, MIT Technology Review, BBC, Axios, Cheddar TV, CRN, The Verge, Fast Company, Quartz, Corrierre Della Serra, Optio, Australian Broadcasting Channel and Nikkei Business Times.
She was named one of BBC’s 100 Women, recognized as one of the Bay Area’s top 40 under 40, and a member of the British Royal Society of the Arts (RSA). She has also been named by Forbes as one of Five Who are Shaping AI. Dr. Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a master's degree in Quantitative Methods of the Social Sciences from Columbia University, and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, San Diego
About All Tech Is Human
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Join our Slack community of over 6k members across 75 countries, attend our regular summits & mixers, and participate in our working groups that develop community reports. Read our Responsible Tech Guide and Responsible Tech Job Board, join our talent pool of over 1.6k, and participate in our mentorship program. Our activities, which are designed to grow and strengthen the Responsible Tech ecosystem, focus on three key areas: multistakeholder convening & community-building, multidisciplinary education, and diversifying the traditional tech pipeline with more backgrounds, disciplines, and lived experiences.