Events

The Association of Computing Machinery’s Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency (FAT), in Barcelona, Spain, January 26-30. Founding Member Mohammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is co-organizer of a panel on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency in AI at Scale: Lessons from National Programs. The panel, featuring representatives from UAE, USA, Singapore and the Maldives, will discuss how different national governmental programs are implementing accountability of machine learning systems in healthcare and how each government conceptualizes what constitutes fairness, accountability and transparency within their cultural context.

“Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and Religion” is a one-day conference on January 30, 2020, at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York, in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), the Riverside Church and the Greater Good Initiative.  Four AI and Faith Founding Members are speaking:  Vikram Modgil in the “Introduction to AI” opening panel; Michael Quinn and Brian Green in the panel on “Ethical Implications”; and Thomas Arnold in the panel on “Ethical/Religious Implications”.