November 2023 CASMI researchers from Carnegie Mellon University traveled on Nov. 6-9 to Delft, Netherlands to present findings from their research project, which is exploring key differences between human and AI judgment to support more effective human-AI decision-making.
November 2023 In a cooperative initiative, UL Research Institutes (ULRI) and Northwestern University are working to bring safety to the forefront of the rapidly expanding field of AI and machine learning through their leadership of the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) research hub.
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November 2023 On November 10, the Gender Equity Initiative at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Northwestern University Law and Technology Initiative cohosted the “Gender and Intersectional Bias in Artificial Intelligence Conference” to discuss how and why AI reflects and exacerbates historical and social inequities and innovative technical and legal approaches to mitigate those biases.
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November 2023 For the second year in a row, CASMI attended the annual Chicago Innovation Awards as a Top 100 Finalist.
November 2023 CASMI researchers are working to understand plausible AI risks through a unique, writing-based method.
November 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond says President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence is about “how we can improve things, how we can do a better job, and making sure that all the federal agencies take rein over what they see as the problematic areas.”
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October 2023 CASMI supported a special interest group (SIG) event on Oct. 17 in Minneapolis called “Purposeful AI.”
October 2023 CASMI designed and led a workshop to support the expansion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) guidance from a sociotechnical lens.
October 2023 CASMI research is aimed at helping designers form rich and accurate descriptions of real-life situations so that they can create context-aware responsible tools.
October 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond says guardrails will help determine how much help or harm AI can bring to the world.
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October 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond says AI is currently causing issues we need to address now, as opposed to focusing on existential threats.
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October 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond explains how the use of chatbots to attend to customers can be positive or negative.
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September 2023 CASMI is co-hosting a workshop on Oct. 16-17 in Washington, D.C. to test and evaluate sociotechnical approaches for AI systems, focusing specifically on expanding the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF).
September 2023 CASMI researchers are working to understand what is causing bias in a popular predictor tool that is quick to train.
September 2023 CASMI researchers are studying expectant mothers’ stress levels to combat them in real time and even prevent them.
September 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond explains how artificial intelligence is changing how students learn and what this could mean for professors.
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August 2023 Law enforcement agencies are using machine learning technologies to forecast where crime might occur. CASMI has supported newly published research that is aimed at mitigating the risks in data-driven policing.
August 2023 CASMI researchers have investigated threats to validity and reliability in human-AI decision-making and have demonstrated how new methods may help address these challenges.
August 2023 On July 18 and 19, CASMI hosted 32 interdisciplinary scholars from academia, industry, and government for its workshop, “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI," to discuss how to meaningfully operationalize safe, functional AI systems.
July 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond discusses the European Union's proposed legislation aimed at reducing risks posed by artificial intelligence.
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July 2023 Tetiana Zakharchenko, senior lecturer at Ukrainian Catholic University, and Nazarii Drushchak, graduate student in data science, have balanced blackouts and empty classrooms while researching fairness and accuracy in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
July 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond says, over the next decade, it will be challenging to tell the difference between what content is real and what has been manipulated.
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July 2023 CASMI researchers have found a simple and effective way to identify unknown and anomalous data for language models, which improves safety and reliability.
July 2023 Experts like CASMI Director Kristian Hammond explain how chatbots work and what large language models don't know.
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June 2023 Several CASMI researchers attended the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), an event that is closely aligned with the focus of CASMI's next workshop, “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI.”
June 2023 Using eye-tracking technology, CASMI researchers gathered data about eye gaze signals, with help from 11 people with disabilities, and concluded that it’s likely assistive devices can be designed to allow for smoother control.
June 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond called the idea that A.I. could one day wipe out humanity "shockingly overly dramatic" and a "distraction" from the real issue.
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May 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond responds to the Center for AI Safety's statement that AI poses a "risk of extinction."
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May 2023 Researchers with CASMI have found that a commonly used technique in machine learning (ML), which is meant to improve accuracy, is more likely to worsen fairness for historically disadvantaged groups.
May 2023 The 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) will be held June 12-15 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago. CASMI-affiliated researchers are participating.
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May 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond, professor of computer science at Northwestern University, said there are present problems we should address instead of focusing on existential risks.
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May 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond discusses the future of artificial intelligence as the CEO of OpenAI testifies about the technology before Congress.
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May 2023 CASMI visiting researcher Francisco Iacobelli and his research team are creating an intelligent tutoring system for low-literacy Latina breast cancer survivors.
May 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond addresses the concerns and safety risks regarding artificial intelligence systems.
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April 2023 The Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) is hosting a workshop on July 18-19 entitled, “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI.”
April 2023 The Northwestern University Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design (HCI+D) hosted a virtual panel on April 7 entitled, “Thought Leaders on AI Education.” The discussion focused on what curriculums are available for students and teachers in all grade levels and how adults can also learn about AI systems and tools.
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April 2023 CASMI's virtual discussion focused on how businesses are using large language models like ChatGPT and how researchers are exploring the next developments of generative tools and investigating potential harms these systems could create.
March 2023 Ben Shneiderman, keynote speaker at CASMI's last workshop, produced a TechBrief entitled, "Safer Algorithmic Systems.” His hope is to convince the government and policy communities to make safer algorithmic systems a priority.
March 2023 Anyone can go to the AI Incident Database to report AI harms or near harms, which are then classified as AI incidents. The database currently has more than 2,400 reports of AI harms, resulting in more than 400 incidents.
March 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond explains how police departments can best use robots to help in dangerous work.
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March 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond explains why Meta's Casual Conversationsv2 is a solid first step but not a full solution.
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March 2023 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond joins the Steve Cochran Show to explain why schools shouldn't ban ChatGPT.
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February 2023 The Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) at Northwestern University, a collaboration with the UL Research Institutes' Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI), is providing $2.2 million in funding for eight new projects across seven institutions.
February 2023 CASMI hosted a workshop on Jan. 19 and 20 entitled, “Toward a Safety Science of AI.” Interdisciplinary thought leaders attended to share ideas on how we can define, measure, and anticipate safety in AI.
January 2023 Researchers with the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) have created a Human Impact Scorecard to assess and to demonstrate an artificial intelligence (AI) system’s impact on human well-being.
January 2023 CASMI director Kris Hammond appears on "Chicago Tonight" on WTTW to explain the benefits and the drawbacks of ChatGPT.
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December 2022 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have helped improve our lives, but they have also exposed people to harm. The solution requires a multipronged, inclusionary approach that focuses on developing a culture of safety, panelists told The Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) at Northwestern University.
November 2022 CASMI researchers have identified urban/rural disparities in crowd-sourced data and geographic data used in spatial intelligent technologies
October 2022 CASMI director, Kris Hammond, responds to the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
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October 2022 CASMI researchers developed a framework, called DANGER, that can generate dynamic stress tests for safety-critical systems.
October 2022 CASMI was named as one of the top 100 finalists for the 21st annual Chicago Innovation Awards
August 2022 Artificial intelligence systems can process vast amounts of data in seconds, but they can’t make sense of the world or explain their decisions. David Ferrucci wants to change that.
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August 2022 The center seeks to fund new initiatives critical to furthering safety in intelligent systems
July 2022 Data-Driven Policing Workshop focused on the current landscape of data-driven policing, including best practices and implementation.
June 2022 CASMI Director Kristian Hammond participated in a panel discussion hosted by CASBS at Stanford University.
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April 2022 Ceremony featured remarks from Northwestern, Underwriters Laboratories leaders.
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February 2022 Supported by Underwriters Laboratories, center will foster research that integrates safety into AI design.
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