ILPC Seminar Series on AI and the Humanities:‘Toward a Global Index for Measuring the State of Responsible AI.’
There is a global consensus that AI must be used responsibly if societies around the world are to enjoy the benefits of AI while avoiding the risks associated with even greater social and economic inequalities. To make progress in advancing responsible AI, it is critical to know and understand the current state-of-play, as well as to track progress over time.
This talk will present a new project underway to develop a Global Index on Responsible AI. The project seeks to address the need for inclusive, measurable indicators that reflect a shared understanding of what responsible AI means in practice, and track the implementation of responsible AI principles by governments and key stakeholders.
The Global Index on Responsible AI is a rights-based tool to support a broad range of actors in advancing responsible AI practices. It is intended to provide a comprehensive, reliable, independent, and comparative benchmark for assessing progress toward responsible AI the world over.
Date: 6 September 2023, 4:00PM – 6:00PM
Venue: In person at IALS Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Keynote speaker: Dr Rachel Adams, Principal Researcher, ICT Africa
Dr Rachel Adams is an experienced leader in directing large regional and global projects relating to AI policy. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Global Index on Responsible AI and the AI4D African Observatory on Responsible AI. Before taking up her post at Research ICT Africa, Rachel was a Chief Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, and previously the Senior Researcher for Civil and Political Rights at the South African Human Rights Commission. Rachel sits on numerous boards and expert panels including the UNESCO Expert Group on the Implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on AI in Ethics, and the expert advisory board of an Ada Lovelace project on the future of AI and genomics.
Rachel is an Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge; a Research Associate of the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; and Research Associate at the Tayarisha: African Centre of Excellence for Digital Governance, University of Witwatersrand. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal on Human Rights. Rachel has published widely on issues relating to AI policy, decolonisation, gender and human rights, with a particular focus on the African region. She is the author of Transparency: New Trajectories in Law (2020), and the lead author of Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South African (2021). Her work has featured in, amongst others, the New York Times, The Guardian, Marie Clare and La Croix.
Chair: Dr Nora Ni Loideain, Director and Senior Lecturer in Law, Information Law & Policy Centre Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
This event is free to attend, but booking is required.
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