AI NOW 2017 Symposium
July 10, 2017
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
The AI Now 2017 Symposium was designed to address the biggest challenges we face as AI moves further into our everyday lives. This was the second annual Symposium hosted by the AI Now, with generous support from the AI Ethics and Governance Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and MIT Media Lab.
The 2017 Symposium brought together over 100 leading experts from industry, academia, civil society, and government to share ideas for technical design, research, and policy directions. Discussions this year focused on the application of AI across four key themes: Rights and Liberties, Labor and Automation, Bias and Inclusion, and Ethics and Governance. These experts spent a day in closed-door talks and discussions, then joined an evening program that was free and open to the public.
You can watch videos of the talks and panel discussions from both events below.
The AI Now 2017 Report provides of summary of the Symposium’s four focus areas with close attention to developments that have occurred in the last 12 months. This 2017 Report also incorporates key insights and high-level recommendations that emerged from discussions at the Symposium.
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Experts Workshop IntroductionKate Crawford, Meredith Whittaker
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Experts Workshop Welcome RemarksJoi Ito, Jonathan Zittrain
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Panel Q&A: Ethics & GovernanceMolly Steenson, Kate Darling, Rob Sparrow, Trevor Paglen
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Limited Vision: The Undersampled MajorityJoy Buolamwini
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Biases Beyond ObservationMoritz Hardt
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What is the Problem to Which Fair Machine Learning is the Solution?Solon Barocas
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Thinking A.I. through Rastus Robot, the Westinghouse Mechanical SlaveSimone Browne
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Panel Q&A: Bias & InclusionJoy Buolamwini, Moritz Hardt, Solon Barocas, Simone Browne
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Change is Inevitable: It's Progress That's OptionalAndy Stern
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Working With and Against AIKaren Levy
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Automating Musical Judgment: The Case of MasteringJonathan Sterne
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Remaking Reasoning: Logics, Labor, and AutomationStephanie Dick
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Panel Q&A: Labor & AutomationAndy Stern, Karen Levy, Jonathan Sterne, Stephanie Dick
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Policing Digital TracesSarah Brayne
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The Data is Always Lying: How to Distinguish Insight From Snake OilPatrick Ball
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?Ryan Calo
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Statistics for Social GoodLester Mackey
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Data ColonialismNathaniel Raymond
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Panel Q&A: Rights & LibertiesSarah Brayne, Patrick Ball, Ryan Calo, Lester Mackey, Nathaniel Raymond
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What We Know About AIMolly Wright Steenson
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From Machine Ethics to PoliticsRob Sparrow
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AI and Public PerceptionKate Darling
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Invisible Images: Ethics of Autonomous Vision SystemsTrevor Paglen
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Symposium Welcome RemarksJoi Ito
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This Moment in Artificial IntelligenceKate Crawford, Meredith Whittaker
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Bias Traps in AISolon Barocas, Arvind Narayanan, Cathy O’neil, Deirdre Mulligan, John Wilbanks
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Governance Gaps Under TrumpJulie Brill, Nicole Wong, Commissioner Terrell Mcsweeny, Vanita Gupta
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Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk #1Blaise Agüera Y Arcas
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Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk #2Ben Wizner
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Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk #3Sendhil Mullainathan
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Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk #4Genevieve Bell
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Rights and Liberties in an Automated WorldDanielle Citron, Ben Wizner, Blaise Agüera Y Arcas, Genevieve Bell, Sendhil Mullainathan,
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Symposium Closing RemarksKate Crawford, Meredith Whittaker