Join us and our distinguished speaker Dr Margaret Mitchell (Hugging Face) for a discussion on AI Ethics. The event will be moderated by Prof. Joanna Bryson (Centre for Digital Governance).
What does it mean to operationalise "ethical" AI when developing, procuring, deploying, and using AI systems? This talk will examine the business of AI and how ethical considerations intersect with free market dynamics and regulation. The speaker will describe a fundamentally different approach to the proliferation of AI in our lives than current common practices, prioritising foresight and contextual appropriateness over short-term faith in the benefit of AI.
This event is part of the Digital Governance in Practice event series organised by the Centre for Digital Governance of the Hertie School.
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Speakers
Dr Margaret Mitchell is a researcher focused on machine learning (ML) and ethics-informed AI development in tech. She has published over 100 papers on topics including natural language generation, computer vision, assistive technology, and AI ethics, and holds patents in AI conversation generation and sentiment classification. She currently works at Hugging Face as a researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist, leading efforts in responsible AI and ML data processing. Previously, she was a Staff Research Scientist at Google AI, where she founded and co-led the Ethical AI group. She has also worked at Microsoft Research and completed a postdoc at Johns Hopkins. Mitchell holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Aberdeen and a Master's in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington. Her work has earned recognition from TIME, Business Insider, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and American Foundation for the Blind. She is known for developing “Model Cards,” “Seeing AI,” and methods to mitigate AI bias.
Moderator
Joanna Bryson is since 2020 Full Professor of Ethics and Technology at Hertie School. Globally recognised for her expertise in intelligence (both natural and artificial) and intelligent technology policy, Bryson holds degrees in Social and Computer Sciences from Chicago, Edinburgh and MIT, and an honorary doctorate from Louvain. Her research appears in venues ranging from reddit to Science, and her policy voice is heard in the UN, UNESCO, EU, Council of Europe, OSCE, OECD as well as a number of national governments.