EqualAI Badge for Responsible AI Governance Portal
Introduction & Session I:
Equity by Design: What Is It And Why You Need It
Opening Remarks: Opening remarks by Miriam Vogel, President & CEO of EqualAI and founder of EqualAI Badge program with what you can expect to learn, and what we’ll achieve together.
Speaker: Renee Cummings, Criminologist and AI Ethicist
How is bias built into the algorithms and technologies that we use on a daily basis? How do “-isms” (racism, sexism, classism, etc.) make their way into the digital world? What are effective and feasible strategies to combat them? These questions are at the root of EqualAI’s mission and will be addressed in this session and throughout this Badge program.
Session II:
Ethical Matrix for Creating AI
Speaker: Cathy O'Neil, CEO, ORCAA; author of Weapons of Math Destruction
In session II, we discuss how and why to build an ethical framework for AI as you deploy AI in pivotal functions. How does your company define success with regard to AI? Where might your AI fall short, and for whom could it fail? We address the importance of understanding AI in context, developing evidence-based procedures for assessing your AI.
Session III:
Is Your AI Safe to Launch?
Speaker: Kathy Baxter, Principal Architect of Responsible AI and Tech, Salesforce
Strategies to assemble stakeholders within an organization to build consensus around best practices and develop a culture of equity and inclusivity especially with regard to responsible AI. These readings include examples of how AI affects people at all levels within a company, as well as end users/clients/customers; they help participants develop best practices that can increase employee well-being and harness the benefits of AI
Session IV:
Tools and Strategies to Operationalize
Responsible AI Governance
Speakers: Dawn Bloxwich, Director, Pioneering Responsibly, Google DeepMind; Peter Hallinan, Director, Responsble AI, AWS
Importance of leveraging perspectives from diverse teams in not only developing responsible AI governance but also in creating a culture that fosters responsibility; operationalizing RAI policies across departments/teams; why fairness in AI is most likely to be achieved with an "all hands on deck" approach
Session V:
The Role of Law and Lawyers in AI Policy and Governance
Speakers: Tom Lue, General Counsel & Head of Governance, Google DeepMind and Lee Tiedrich, GPAI & OECD Expert, Duke Professor, and Former Covington Partner
Session VI:
Where We Are Headed: The AI Policy Landscape
Speakers: Max Katz, Legislative Fellow, Sen. Martin Heinrich; Tim O’Brien, the Center for Office of Emerging Technologies, NIST; Justin Reynolds, Senior Advisor for Critical and Emerging Technology, Department of State
In the penultimate session of the Badge Program, we discuss global and domestic AI governance, important developments in law and policy, and how these may affect your organization in the future. We consider these in light of your organization’s current AI policies and those you have developed throughout the program. We consider laws and regulations from across the globe for which we will need to plan and be prepared with respect to AI governance.