Responsible AI takes practice: Cross-sector insights into how we shape responsible use of AI methodologies

Every organisation seems to be staking a claim to responsible AI, issuing new statements of ethical principles for AI to follow, but what does it look like to actually do responsible AI in practice? This gap is one of the biggest challenges meaning that responsible AI too often stays as a talking point, and too rarely becomes an action plan. This talk will present emerging findings from the past two years of research in the  Framing Responsible AI Implementation and Management (FRAIM) and Getting responsible about AI and machine learning in research funding and evaluation (GRAIL) responsible AI projects, funded by BRAID and the Research on Research Institute. These projects are building shared knowledge of what is involved in putting responsible AI into everyday practice and how to do it effectively, working in coproduction with nearly 20 partner organisations around the world. I will also highlight the emerging role of AI skills and competencies in bringing responsible AI practice forward in research and education.

Bio

Denis Newman-Griffis (they/them) is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and AI for Health Lead in the Centre for Machine Intelligence, University of Sheffield. Their work is an interdisciplinary blend of natural language processing, investigates responsible AI principles, practices, and technologies, with a particular focus on healthcare and disability. They are also a British Academy Innovation Fellow, a Research Fellow of the Research on Research Institute, and Co-Chair of the UK Young Academy, and their research has been recognised with the American Medical Informatics Association’s Doctoral Dissertation Award. Denis is a proudly queer and neurodivergent academic and committed to fostering diversity of identity, perspective, and experience around the AI table.

Running Order

16.00 – Welcome by Ewa Luger and Talk by Denis Newman-Griffis

16.40 – Q&A

17.00 – End

In-person: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Online: Zoom

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