Day 1

A limited number of attendees will get to attend Day 1 of the AI & Ethics community conference. This includes access to a series of expert-curated talks, your choice of interactive workshop, and your choice intimate roundtable discussions led by leading innovators.

*Delicious Dinner + soft drinks, tea, & coffee will be served!*

• 5:00pm – Doors Open + Networking
• 5:30pm – Welcome Remarks
• 5:45pm – Workshop Overviews
• 6:00pm – Workshop 1: Ethical Empathy Mapping for the Machine (with Chris Butler)
• 7:30pm – Workshops 2 & 3: Proactively Lessening Bias in AI with Interdisciplinary Collaboration (with Dauna Williams & LaToya Finney)
  | Prototyping Risk: Responsible AI Planning (with Stuart Culpepper)
• 8:55pm – Closing Remarks
• 9:00pm – End of Event

1. Ethical Empathy Mapping for the Machine (Workshop)

What is lacking in most discussions around AI, machine learning and other intelligent algorithms is how they can help solve people’s problems. Any team that is working on hard, meaningful, and purpose-driven problems could benefit from AI/ML, but without the right focus you may end up building toys, systems that are not ethical, or solutions that are flat out bad for society. During the workshop, you will go through Empathy Mapping for the Machine exercise for a current topic: loan approval. Chris Butler will guide you through the process so you can use it with your teams afterwards. This workshop is for data scientists, engineers, designers, product managers, executives, and stakeholders to build alignment without using AI jargon. Teams that are being asked to “do something interesting with AI/ML” will finally have an answer that works for everyone impacted.

Facilitator: Chris Butler (Chief Product Architect, IP Soft)

2. Proactively Lessening Bias in AI with Interdisciplinary Collaboration

When it comes to AI bias, given the presence of well-worn, anti-discrimination laws, courts of law may find that some AI bias could have been avoided by the inventing scientists. Even the “court of public opinion” is holding scientists accountable for biased AI. On the flip side, disruptive creativity often moves fast, and yes, sometimes things will break. Employing use cases, this workshop will explore how inventors have successfully balanced legal requirements, like anti-discrimination and intellectual property protection laws, with creating disruptive inventions through the use of interdisciplinary collaboration. We will deconstruct actual AI bias case studies alongside groundbreaking “secret sauce” use cases from the pharmaceutical, finance and software industries, where inventors have proactively employed collaborative tools to inform and protect inventive creativity before bringing a product to market. This workshop will be facilitated by a lawyer and project manager with combined over 40 years’ experience in helping inventors, R&D and other complex project teams work together to proactively avoid legal pitfalls, protect intellectual property rights and foster disruptive invention through the use of interdisciplinary

Facilitators:
– Dauna Williams (CEO, Law+Tech=Love)
– LaToya Finney (Founder, WokeAI)

3. Intro to Ethical AI

We will use the Innovation Deck, an invention of Havas Global User Experience Design Director Marc Blanchard. Participants will be divided into teams of 3-5 participants and given a deck of cards that can be used to “paper prototype” an AI solution to a social or business problem provided by the facilitator. Problems can include, lowering the cost of college education, improving patient care nationally, reducing food waste, or reducing carbon emissions.Teams will have 25 minutes to assemble a technology product/strategy to tackle the problem.Then they will present their ideas to each other. The facilitator will then lead a 30 minute discussion illustrating the potential risks that the ideas may present to privacy, truth in information, wealth inequality, job destruction and the environment.Each group with then have 10 minutes to discuss how to mitigate risks and then share their summary thoughts the group.The workshop will conclude with the group collectively deciding what steps are most important to insure responsible development of AI and agree on steps to socialize those principles back to their professional environments.

Facilitator: Stuart Culpepper (Director of Product, CX & Innovation, Havas)

Meet leaders in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science, as well as business decision makers looking to stay on the cutting edge of AI. Enjoy curated content from technical experts & discuss your thoughts in interactive workshops and intimate roundtable discussions.