Developing AI Products with AI Standards, Sponsored by SIG-AI
Industry standards are emerging as a key mechanism to ensure human-centered and responsible AI development and deployment. However, AI standards are new and untested. Zachary Kilhoffer, a tech policy researcher and PhD candidate, will lead the webinar "Developing AI Products with AI Standards". This event aims to (1) gather information about how standards can be most useful to practitioners, and (2) assess the strengths and weaknesses of newly published AI standards by engaging practitioners who will use them. Participants, including AI engineers, compliance experts, and researchers, will participate in structured discussions and focus groups, collaborating to develop suggestions for enhancing the standards. This session is particularly relevant for professionals involved in AI product development and compliance, offering valuable insights into the practical application and refinement of AI standards in real-world scenarios. Please note that this webinar will be presented in two parts, with Part 1 on November 7 at 11:00 AM EST and Part 2 on December 5 at 11:00 AM EST.
Presenters
PhD Candidate Zak Kilhoffer is interested in how we regulate new and emerging technologies to ensure concepts like privacy and security, transparency and accountability, and fairness and ethics. He focuses on AI governance — especially concerning risk assessment, impact assessment, and compliance. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked at the Centre for European Policy Studies, where his work contributed to the EU Platform Workers Directive.
Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research empirically explores governance of sociotechnical systems, as well as outcomes, inequality, and consequences within these systems. Using mixed-methods, including computational social science approaches and institutional analysis, she addresses research questions about: participation in and legitimacy of sociotechnical governance; social justice issues associated with sociotechnical governance; privacy in sociotechnical systems; and differences between policies or regulations and sociotechnical practice. Her work practically supports decision-making in, management of, and participation in a diverse public sphere. She is a 2023-2024 Public Voices Fellow, an affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, co-PI of the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons, and series editor for Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons.
Lala Hajibayova is an associate professor in the Kent State University School of Information. Hajibayova teaches courses on Information Representation and Organization, Indexing and Abstracting, Social Informatics and Scholarly Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Information Science with a minor in Communications from Indiana University Bloomington. Hajibayova’s research falls into a broad category of sociotechnical studies, information representation and organization, and scholarly communication. She is particularly interested in examining interplay between individuals’ contextualized experiences, patterns and behaviors of engaging with systems and the potential of individuals’ collective actions to enrich systems of representation, organization and discovery, leading to ways to facilitate designing of human-centered systems that embrace multiplicity of views and comply with ethical norms. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed information science journals including Information Processing and Management, Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Information Science and Journal of Documentation and Information Research.
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