Shaping Responsible AI:
From Principles to Practice
Invitation-Only Workshop
OCTOBER 17, 2023 | NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, BOSTON
Bringing together leading experts in Responsible AI to define, discuss, and develop the essential elements of robust RAI frameworks, best practices, and ‘grand challenges’.
About the Workshop:
The goal of this workshop is to bridge existing conceptualizations of RAI frameworks and define the essential elements of RAI frameworks, to allow thorough implementation of RAI in businesses and organizations. A common approach to RAI in practice is crucial, if RAI is to provide an efficient, thorough, and safe path for organizations to secure themselves and society against ethical risks in connection with AI.
Workshop Goals
Connect and bridge existing conceptualizations of RAI frameworks
Determine how to integrate RAI into the innovation process through a consistent framework
Define the essential elements of a RAI framework
Advise on the implementation of RAI in businesses and organization
Meet the Workshop Leaders
Cansu Canca
Workshop Lead
Cansu Canca is the Ethics Lead, Research Associate Professor, and Co-chair of the AI Ethics Advisory Board at the Institute of Experiential AI. She also has an affiliation with the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Ethics Institute in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. She has a doctorate in philosophy specializing in applied ethics.
Canca is the founder of AI Ethics Lab, one of the first initiatives focusing exclusively on advising practitioners and conducting multidisciplinary research on the ethics of AI. She remains the director of the AI Ethics Lab, where she leads teams of computer scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, and other experts in research, toolkit development, and more. Read more.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Workshop Lead
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is the Director of Research and Co-chair of the AI Ethics Advisory Board at the Institute for Experiential AI. He is also a part-time professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and the Department of Computing Science of Universidad de Chile in Santiago.
Baeza-Yates actively participates in many Responsible AI global initiatives, committees, and advisory boards. These include the Global AI Ethics Consortium, Global Partnership on AI, Inter-American Development Bank’s fAIr LAC Initiative (Latin America and the Caribbean), and ACM’s Technology Policy Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms (USA). Read more.
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