Sustainable AI: Ethical Applications for Good

Join the UC Berkeley Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group (AFOG), The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), and the CITRIS Policy Lab for the virtual event, Sustainable AI: Ethical Applications for Good on October 19th, 11am-12pm PST.

Trustworthy AI and AI observability have become crucial requirements with the increasing development, deployment, and wide-spread adoption of both predictive AI and generative AI models and applications. This presentation explores current initiatives in AI governance and expands on Trustworthy AI and AI observability to explore topics of AI for sustainability. Join Lydia Gaby, Principal at HR&A Advisors, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Chief AI Officer for Fiddler AI, and Jared Lewis, Head of Policy for Dentsu Good as they present on Sustainable AI, an innovative way to unlock the potential of Artificial Intelligence.

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Meet the Speakers

Lydia Gaby, a Principal at HR&A Advisors, is a leading expert in equitable economic development. Her expertise lies in creating strategies that foster wealth creation while addressing racial and climate disparities. Lydia offers profound insights into the impact of technologies, policies, and investments on communities and their economies. She is known for her expertise in crafting ethical corporate and government strategies grounded in community priorities and supported by community-validated data. Lydia's extensive experience uniquely positions her to collaborate with communities, empowering them to advocate for and lead transformative change that enhances lives.

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Krishnaram Kenthapadi is the Chief AI Officer & Chief Scientist of Fiddler AI, an enterprise startup building a responsible AI and ML monitoring platform. Previously, he was a Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI, where he led the fairness, explainability, privacy, and model understanding initiatives in the Amazon AI platform. Prior to joining Amazon, he led similar efforts at the LinkedIn AI team, and served as LinkedIn’s representative in Microsoft’s AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research (AETHER) Advisory Board.

Previously, he was a Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab. Krishnaram received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2006. He serves regularly on the senior program committees of FAccT, KDD, WWW, WSDM, and related conferences, and co-chaired the 2014 ACM Symposium on Computing for Development. His work has been recognized through awards at NAACL, WWW, SODA, CIKM, ICML AutoML workshop, and Microsoft’s AI/ML conference (MLADS). He has published 50+ papers, with 7000+ citations and filed 150+ patents (70 granted). He has presented tutorials on privacy, fairness, explainable AI, model monitoring, responsible AI, and generative AI at forums such as ICML, KDD, WSDM, WWW, FAccT, and AAAI, given several invited industry talks, and instructed a course on responsible AI at Stanford.

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Jared Lewis is a public policy entrepreneur, specializing in digital access and sustainable economies. He currently serves as Head of Policy for Dentsu Good, a Sustainability Accelerator, where he is helping to shape digital first, circular economy projects in partnership with some of the world’s largest corporations.

Jared worked as a Director with HR&A, a leading public interest consulting practice where he helped develop the National Broadband Resource Hub, an integrated platform supporting Federal, State and Municipal governments as well as leading Community Based Organizations in expanding Broadband adoption programs in preparation for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Previously, Jared worked as a Global Program Manager for Airbnb where he led a global user education and mobilization program in nine countries including: US, Japan, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, UK, Japan, Germany and Ireland. His work helped to re-establish the organization’s user engagement model that has served as the reconstitution of the Policy/ Comms mobilization activities from political advocacy to community engagement and local community development.

Jared was the inaugural Congressman John Lewis Social Justice Fellow for Science and Technology where he worked for two members of Congress on a range of technology initiatives. Jared is a current Tech Fellow at the Berkeley Citris Lab where he has been developing an initiative around AI for Good.

Jared holds a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Chicago and is currently a J.D. Student at Fordham University School of Law.

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