Current and Future Challenges of Coordinated Policies in AI Regulation conference
(Coe.Int) Engage in a multi-stakeholder and inclusive dialogue and science-based argumentation around the current initiatives in the field of AI regulation, and will demonstrate the relevance and usefulness of these initiatives for national public policies. Speakers will be drawn from various sectors, ranging from international organizations through national policy experts to tech companies, civil society actors and representatives of the academia.
Procuring & Embedding AI Systems in the Public Sector, with Rumman Chowdhury & Mona Sloane
(Carnegie Council For Ethics) In this episode of the "Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative" podcast, Senior Fellows Anja Kaspersen and Wendell Wallach are joined by Mona Sloane, research scientist and adjunct professor at New York University, and Rumman Chowdhury, Twitter's director of machine learning ethics, transparency and accountability, to discuss their recent online resource aiprocurement.org. The conversation addresses key tension points and narratives impacting how AI systems are procured and embedded in the public sector.
Twitter’s photo-cropping algorithm
(Marketplace) Rumman Chowdhury of Twitter explains the strategy behind fixing the tool that favored white faces over Black ones and women over men.
How Twitter hired tech's biggest critics to build ethical AI
(Protocol) Twitter hired a team of tech critics to build ethical AI - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
Twitter's commitment to Font's team has convinced even the most skeptical people in tech — the ethics research community itself. Rumman Chowdhury, notorious and beloved by her fellow researchers for her commitment to algorithmic auditing, announced that she would be leaving her new startup to become Twitter's META leader.
Cross-cultural Feminist Technologies: A Q&A with Payal Arora and Rumman Chowdhury
(UC Press) Cross-cultural Feminist Technologies: A Q&A with Payal Arora and Rumman Chowdhury
Rumman has been an industry practitioner since 2013, and focused on responsible and ethical technology for the last five years. Her background is working with influential c-suite clients who are integrating cutting edge technologies and ensuring they are done responsibly. In her role at Twitter, she leads a team dedicated to considering and addressing social and ethical implications of AI and ML.
Government launches a wide-ranging consultation to change UK’s data landscape
(News Medical Life Sciences) Government launches a wide-ranging consultation to change UK’s data landscape and boost innovation, economic growth and protect the public
Government launches a wide-ranging consultation to change UK’s data landscape (news-medical.net)
Growing Digital Ethics in Practice
(Leading Forum) Critical Literacy for AI Governance Modeling. Rumman and her team have been increasingly focused on the importance of developing the right critical thinking skills to interrogate the specifics of AI governance models.
Human Rights Engineering – Beyond Privacy | LEF
(Leading Forum) — Podcast For this episode, I’m joined by Katie Shay, the head of Business & Human Rights at Cisco. Katie compared the growing strategic focus on human rights in business operations to the prior development of Privacy Engineering as a discipline: she believes the trajectory from being an important but loosely organized set of principles to a recognized business function is beginning to coalesce.
Governance: a multilayered system of incentives, checks & balances
(Turtl.co) Governance means different things to different people. If you talk to somebody who builds technology, they think of governance at the model level, so what is a system governance for a model, checks and balances at each stage of development, deployment, and then post deployment.
But if you talk to most other people in the organization, they think of governance as organizational governance [like risk and compliance teams, trust and safety teams, or legal departments].
Cybersecurity’s Lessons for Growing Digital Ethics in Practice
(Leading Edge Forum) Podcast On this episode, I’m joined by Mark Hughes, DXC’s senior vice president of Offerings and Strategic Partners. Mark is responsible for DXC’s technology strategy by driving innovation in DXC’s core offerings. Before stepping into this role, Mark led DXC's security organization and offerings and he previously served as BT’s Chief Executive of Security.
What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
(Technology Review) Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability for human decisions. For many, the term implies a set of rules based objectively on empirical evidence or data. It also suggests a system that is highly complex—perhaps so complex that a human would struggle to understand its inner workings or anticipate its behavior when deployed. But is this characterization accurate? Not always.
"A 'building the plane as you fly it' moment": Q&A with Twitter's ethical AI lead Rumman Chowdhury
(Morning Brew) “Rumman Chowdhury has led responsible AI efforts from within major companies for years—first at Accenture, and now as director of the Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team at Twitter.”
A Silicon Valley Love Triangle: Hiring Algorithms, Pseudo-Science, and the Quest for Auditability
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