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AI Safety: A Domain-Focused Approach to Anticipating Harm

June 24-25, 2024
New York City

CASMI, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, hosted a meeting to explore issues of safety and harm related to artificial intelligence in a more specific set of ways. The goal was to bring together thought leaders in three areas: Medicine, Law, and Journalism, to discuss issues of the impact of AI on their fields.

The meeting was centered on three elements:

  1. How the different fields manage their ethical positions and technology concerns.
  2. How existing issues with AI from other fields might help to develop and refine ethical stances.
  3. Tools and techniques for envisioning problems in the face of new technologies.

This convening aimed to consider AI's impact by examining it from the perspective of human interaction and harm. The goal was to establish methods for identifying potential harms, discover approaches to mitigate them within current systems, discuss how to avoid harms when developing new ones, and to establish what kinds of communication each field needs as they develop their responses to AI.

Speakers

Paula GoldmanPaula Goldman
Salesforce Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer

 

 

Melissa GoldsteinMelissa Goldstein
George Washington University Associate Professor in Health Policy and Management

 

 

James GuszczaJames Guszcza
Northwestern University Research Associate

 

 

Patrick HallPatrick Hall
George Washington University Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences

 

 

Kristian HammondKristian Hammond
Northwestern University Professor of Computer Science, Director of CASMI

 

 

Abigail JacobsAbigail Jacobs
University of Michigan Associate Professor of Information

 

 

Ryan JenkinsRyan Jenkins
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Associate Professor of Philosophy

 

 

Steven LevySteven Levy
Wired Editor at Large

 

 

Daniel W. Linna Jr.Daniel W. Linna Jr.
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Senior Lecturer

 

 

Reva SchwartzReva Schwartz
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Research Scientist

 

 

Operationalizing the Measure Function of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework

October 16-17, 2023
Washington, D.C.

CASMI co-hosted this workshop with two other organizations: the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) and the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The goal was to support expansion of the Measure function of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF). Read a recap.

Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI

July 18-19, 2023

CASMI convened a range of scholars from academia, industry, and government to discuss how to meaningfully operationalize safe, functional AI systems by focusing on measurement and validity in the AI pipeline. Read a recap.

Toward a Safety Science of AI

January 19-20, 2023

CASMI brought together researchers, practitioners and thought leaders in a collaborative, two-day workshop to define and refine an approach Toward a Safety Science of AI. The goal of the workshop is a deliverable that articulates a definition of AI safety and the next steps for research necessary to establish a robust safety science for the field. Read a recap.

Best Practices in Data-Driven Policing

June 23-24, 2022

The two-day workshop functioned as a forum for facilitating interdisciplinary conversations focused on the concerns and benefits of data-driven policing, as well as best practices for developing and implementing data-driven policing technologies. Read a recap.

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