Building Trust in AI: XPRIZE and GDPi
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Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein is the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, having taken up this post in September 2014. A Jordanian career diplomat, Zeid played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court in September 2002. He served as Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2000 until 2007. He was re-appointed Permanent Representative in 2010 and served until 2014, resigning shortly before his selection as High Commissioner.
Samuel H. Altman
President of Y Combinator, Co-chairman of OpenAI
Sam Altman is the president of Y Combinator and the co-chair of OpenAI. Sam also serves on the board of Boom and Reddit. He was cofounder and CEO of Loopt, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2005 and acquired by Green Dot in 2012. Sam also founded Hydrazine Capital. He studied computer science at Stanford, and while there worked in the AI lab. Prior to taking over as Y Combinator's president, Sam was a part-time partner at Y Combinator since 2011.
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. O’Reilly Media delivers online learning, publishes books, runs conferences, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on, and helped the business world understand its importance. In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how “Web 2.0” represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform. He has now turned his attention to implications of AI, the on-demand economy, and other technologies that are transforming the nature of work and the future shape of the business world.
Joy Buolamwini
Founder, Algorithmic Justice League, Poet of Code
Joy Buolamwini founded and leads the Algorithmic Justice League to fight bias in machine learning. She creates learning experiences to develop social impact technology and writes about inclusive code—incoding . Joy is a Rhodes Scholar, a Fulbright Fellow, an Astronaut Scholar, a Google Anita Borg Scholar, and a Carter Center technical consultant recognized as a distinguished volunteer. She piloted the inaugural Rhodes Scholar Service Year to launch Code4Rights which supports youth in creating meaningful technology for their communities in partnership with local organizations.
Jess Holbrook
UX Manager and UX Researcher in the Research and Machine Intelligence group, Google
Jess Holbrook is a UX Manager and UX Researcher in the Research and Machine Intelligence group. He and his team take a combined human-centered and technology-inspired approach to building AI-powered products like Google Clips, Google Lens, and AIY Projects. He co-leads the People + AI Research (PAIR) group and is motivated by how democratizing AI can help people solve meaningful problems for themselves and their communities.
Deb Roy
Co-Founder, Cortico, Director, Laboratory for Social Machines, MIT Media Lab
Deb Roy is a co-founder of Cortico, a non-profit that deploys data science and AI for social impact. He is also director of the Laboratory for Social Machines at MIT Media Lab and is an associate professor at MIT and chief media scientist at Twitter. Roy is the co-founder and co-chair of SocialEmergence.org. He leads research at MIT at the intersection of human and machine communication, advises technology start-up companies, and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Media. He was the co-founder and CEO of Bluefin Labs.
Rochael Adranly
Partner + General Counsel, IDEO
For nearly two decades, Rochael Adranly has been walking the line between the rules-based world of law and the non-rules-based world of innovation. In her role as Partner and General Counsel at IDEO, Rochael uses human-centered design to bring fresh approaches to legal problems and processes, working alongside IDEO designers and clients to navigate the complexities and challenges faced at the intersection of innovation and the law. Rochael co-created IDEO’s legal design and innovation practice, and her advocacy for the power of creative competitiveness in the legal profession has helped law firms across the globe embrace design thinking against a rigid legal landscape. Her thought leadership in this space has been published on Modern Counsel, and in 2016, Rochael was a guest speaker at Harvard Law School’s Innovation Colloquium.
Tessa Lyons
Newsfeed Product Manager, Facebook
Tessa Lyons-Laing is a Product Manager at Facebook. Tessa was previously Business Lead to Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Tessa started her career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she focused on technology and media. Prior to Facebook, she worked at LeanIn.Org, a global community committed to empowering all women to achieve their ambitions. Tessa graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.
Richard Gingras
Vice President of News, Google Inc.
Richard Gingras is Vice President of News at Google . In that role he guides Google’s strategies
relating to the media ecosystem and oversees many of Google’s news and media related
products. Richard was a key instigator of the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, an
effort to make Web content instantaneous and in doing so, preserve the vitality, utility, and
openness of the Worldwide Web. He also helped found the Trust Project , a global effort within
the journalism community to insure that high quality journalism is recognized for the credibility it
deserves.
Richard has been involved in digital media since 1980 or as he once put it “since the days of
steam powered modems”. He helped found Salon.com where he once worked with Pulitzer
Prize winner Glenn Greenwald and has worked at Apple , the @Home Network , the Excite
portal among other digital ventures. He also serves on the boards of the First Amendment
Coalition , the International Center for Journalists , and the Shorenstein Center on the
Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard.
Steve Crown
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Human Rights, Microsoft Corporation
Steve Crown is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Human Rights, Microsoft Corporation, contributing to development and interpretation of company-wide policies that support advocacy for Rule of Law and respect for human rights in the conduct of the company’s business across the globe. In order to advance company and industry initiatives and public-private partnerships to make the global internet safer and more trusted, Steve works closely with other companies, academics, investors, civil society, national governments and international organizations.
Sally Lerhman
Director, Trust Project
Sally Lehrman, senior director of the journalism ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, leads its signature Trust Project, a complex international collaboration that she began building in 2015 to strengthen public confidence in the news through accountability and transparency. The consortium, which involves about 75 news organizations, has created a set of digital standards called “Trust Indicators” to help identify and surface high quality reporting from reliable news sites.
Paula Goldman
Vice President and Global Lead, Tech and Society Solutions Lab, Omidyar Network
Paula Goldman is vice president and founding head of the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network. The Solutions Lab tests and scales interventions designed to help tech companies and civil society better anticipate, prevent, and correct issues arising from societal downsides of technology – and to maximize societal upsides. This work builds on Paula’s previous role at Omidyar Network as the global lead for impact investing, where she created and led the firm’s global efforts to build the impact investing movement through an investment portfolio, industry partnerships, and thought leadership. She also led the creation of a pro-bono advisory practice that helped catalyze significant high net worth capital into impact investing.
Tristan Harris
Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology
Called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine, Tristan Harris spent three years as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens. In 2016, Tristan left Google to work full-time on reforming the attention economy with the non-profit initiative, Time Well Spent. Time Well Spent aims to catalyze a rapid, coordinated change among technology companies through public advocacy, the development of ethical design standards, design education and policy recommendations to protect minds from nefarious manipulation. Tristan founded Center for Humane Technology and inspired the associated “Time Well Spent” movement. In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg embraced time well spent, a phrase coined by Harris, as a design goal for Facebook.
Mitchell Baker
Executive Chairwoman, Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation
Mitchell Baker co-founded the Mozilla Project to support the open, innovative web and ensure it continues offering opportunities for everyone. As Chairwoman of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker is responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide, collective of employees and volunteers around the world who are building the internet as a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Mitchell is deeply engaged in developing product offerings that promote the mission of empowering individuals. She also guides the overall scope and direction of Mozilla’s mission. Mitchell has written the key documents that set out Mozilla's enduring mission and commitments – the Mozilla Public License in 1998, the Mozilla Manifesto in 2007 and the Mozilla Manifesto Addendum – also known as the Pledge for a Healthy Internet – in 2018.
Bertram Malle
Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, XPRIZE Finalist: Human -Centered Robotic Initiative
Bertram F. Malle was trained in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics at the University of Graz, Austria, and received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1995. Between 1994 and 2008 he was Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and served there as Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences from 2001 to 2007. Since September 2008 he is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He is past President of the Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Author of over 70 articles and chapters, he has also co-edited three published volumes, Intentions and intentionality (2001, MIT Press), The evolution of language out of pre-language (2002, Benjamins), and Other minds (2005, Guilford). He authored a monograph on How the mind explains behavior (2004, MIT Press), and his current book project is entitled Social Cognitive Science.
Roberta Katz
Senior Research Scholar, Department of Communications, Stanford University
Roberta Katz is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford, working in both the Department of Communication and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). She is coordinating an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are examining the cultural norms and values of those born during and after the mid-1990s, an age group that has been denominated “Generation Z.” The research will look closely at the traits that define the Generation Z culture, both in and outside the United States, and at the historical trends that have influenced the enculturation of members of this group.
Julia Dressel
Software Engineer, Apple
Julia Dressel is a software engineer at Apple. She hails from Dartmouth College, where she majored in Computer Science and Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her interest in the intersection of technology and society led her to conduct research with Hany Farid, Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science. Her resulting honors thesis, titled “The Accuracy, Fairness, and Limits of Predicting Recidivism,” in which she demonstrated how technology and racial bias affect the prediction of recidivism, received widespread media attention. In 2018, Dressel was invited by Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society to discuss her research.
Christopher Re
Associate Professor, Stanford University Department of Computer Science
Christopher (Chris) Ré is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University in the InfoLab who is affiliated with the Statistical Machine Learning Group, Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Stanford AI Lab. His work's goal is to enable users and developers to build applications that more deeply understand and exploit data. His contributions span database theory, database systems, and machine learning, and his work has won best paper at a premier venue in each area, respectively, at PODS 2012, SIGMOD 2014, and ICML 2016. He cofounded a company, based on his research, that was acquired by Apple in 2017.
Danielle Cass
Director of Silicon Valley Initiative, Amnesty International
Danielle Cass is Director of Amnesty International’s new Silicon Valley Initiative, which aims to connect with the technology sector to transform the human rights movement. She explores how technology can expand Amnesty’s reach and impact, how to mitigate the risks of technologies that pose a human rights issue, and how to leverage technologies to protect human rights and human rights defenders.
Danielle joined Amnesty International in November 2017 from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Development Lab, where she established USAID’s first-ever Silicon Valley presence in January 2015 to engage the technology, innovation and investment communities in global development.
Kip Wainscott
Senior Advisor (Silicon Valley), National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Kip Wainscott is a senior advisor at NDI and leads the Institute's presence in Silicon Valley, engaging technologists and other stakeholders in support of democracy. Until early 2017, Kip served in the White House as senior director of cabinet affairs and senior advisor to the Domestic Policy Council, where his work focused on issues related to justice, technology, and opportunity. He was also appointed senior counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on the development of federal policy related to technology, privacy, and other issues of priority to the Attorney General and the Obama administration.
Brandie Nonnecke
Research & Development Manager for CITRIS, UC Berkeley, Director of the CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program
Dr. Brandie Nonnecke is Research & Development Manager for CITRIS, UC Berkeley and Director of the CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program. She serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of the Digital Economy and Society. Brandie researches human rights at the intersection of law, policy, and emerging technologies. Her current research is primarily focused on the benefits and risks of AI-enabled decision-making, including issues of fairness, accountability, and appropriate governance structures. She has published research on algorithmic-based decision-making for public service provision in the urban context and outlined recommendations for how to better ensure application of AI to support equity and fairness. She is currently leading a collaborative research project with Microsoft on technology and policy recommendations for the development and application of AI in ways that enhance and augment human labor, especially for aging populations and people with disabilities.
Jennifer Bernstein
Urban Innovation Specialist, UNICEF Innovation
Jennie Bernstein supports UNICEF Innovation in their Urban Futures work, where her team assesses the unique challenges facing children in a rapidly urbanizing world, and what innovations can best address them. Most recently, she served as lead researcher for the World Economic Forum White Paper, "How to Prevent Discriminatory Outcomes in Machine Learning". Bernstein holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Development from New York University, and a Masters degree in City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Zvika Krieger
Head of Technology Policy and Partnerships, World Economic Forum
Zvika Krieger serves on the leadership team of the World Economic Forum's new Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco, where he works with governments, leading companies, civil society, and stakeholders from around the world to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in the global public interest. He previously served as the first-ever U.S. Department of State Representative to Silicon Valley and Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation. He also helped the State Department plan for the international impacts of emerging technology trends, such as blockchains, gene editing, and artificial intelligence. He teaches "Hacking for Diplomacy," "Designing for Refugees," and "Long Distance Design" at Stanford and "Designing Technology to Counter Violent Extremism" at UC Berkeley.
Why Human-Centered AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are game-changing technologies that have the potential to bring enormous benefit to society and enable citizens to tackle many of the world’s greatest challenges. With the right incentives, protections, and leadership, AI and ML have the potential to alleviate suffering by accelerating innovation across sectors such as climate change, criminal justice, poverty, governance, and public health. The AI XPRIZE is a $5 million AI and cognitive computing competition challenging teams globally to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. This prize will focus on creating advanced and scalable applications that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines. The solutions will contribute to the enrichment of available tools and data sets for the usage of innovators everywhere. The goal is also to accelerate the understanding and adoption of AI’s most promising breakthroughs. The Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford’s Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law is a program designed to inspire policy and governance innovations that reinforce democratic values, universal human rights, and the rule of law in the digital realm. Its purpose is to serve as a collaboration hub for the development of norms, guidelines, and laws that enhance freedom, security, and trust in the global digital ecosystem. The aim is not only to reinforce existing frameworks of international human rights law and international humanitarian law but also to lead in articulation of how to apply these norms and values in a global digital context. GDPi’s goal is to facilitate the development of operational policies and processes that meet the societal challenges that arise from digitization and technological innovation. By sponsoring this event, XPRIZE and GDPi hope to convene leaders in the field of AI, ML, academia, the private sector, and government in order to explore practical solutions that emphasize human rights by design in the field of AI and ML.
Organizing Hosts
Eileen Donahoe
Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator
Eileen served as US Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the Obama Administration, and then as Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch. She is a member of Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy; the University of Essex Advisory Board on Human Rights, Big Data and Technology and the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network. She is Adjunct Professor at Stanford's CDDRL and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation.
Larry Diamond
Principal Investigator, Global Digital Policy Incubator
Larry Diamond is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology.
Professor Diamond studies democratic development and regime change; U.S. foreign policy affecting democracy abroad.
Amir Banifatemi
XPRIZE Group Lead, AI & Frontier Technologies
Amir is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist. He leads the AI and Frontiers Technologies Initiatives with the XPRIZE foundation, is a co-founder the AI Commons Initiative, and co-founder and curator of the AI for Good Global Summit with the ITU and UN Agencies. He has managed two venture capital funds and continues to support and advise companies with a focus on exponential technologies and transformation of humanity and society. He advocates democratic access to innovation for all.
Mr. Banifatemi is a regular guest lecturer and adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris.
Michael Martin
XPRIZE Ambassador; Head of Communities at SignalFire
Michael is the Head of Communities at SignalFire, an AI-driven VC firm focussed on early stage investing. He formerly led global community relations at the XPRIZE Foundation, where he also managed the AI XPRIZE. Additionally, he is Co-Founder and Policy Director at Free Machine, a non-profit developing public policies and creative projects for a post-work future.
