Episode 97: Francesca Rossi talks about AI ethics and the development of new AI systems

STEM-Talk

Dawn Kernagis and Ken Ford

Natural Sciences, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Science

4.7 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Our guest today is Francesca Rossi, who for the past three years has been an AI Ethics Global Leader at IBM Research as well as an IBM Distinguished Research Staff Member. Prior to her time at IBM, she was a professor of computer science at the University of Padova, Italy. Francesca’s AI research interests include constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, and collective decision making. Much of her research today is focused on the future of artificial intelligence and the ethical issues surrounding the development and behavior of AI systems. She is a fellow of both the worldwide association of AI (AAAI) and of the European Association of AI. She also has been president of the International Joint Conference on AI and the editor in chief of the Journal of AI Research. Sitting in for Dawn during today’s interview is IHMC colleague Brent Venable, who recently was named the inaugural director of a new Ph.D. program in Intelligent Systems and Robotics that is a partnership between IHMC and the University of West Florida. Brent is a graduate of the University of Padova and had Francesca as her academic advisor.

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0:00.0	Welcome to STEM Talk.
0:01.2	Stem Talk.
0:01.4	Stem Talk.
0:03.3	Stem Talk.
0:03.7	Stem Talk, where we introduce you to fascinating people who passionately inhabit
0:10.5	the scientific and technical frontiers of our society.
0:14.1	Hi, I'm your host, Don Kornagas, and joining me to introduce today's podcast as a man
0:18.9	behind the curtain, Dr. Ken Ford, IHMC's director and chairman of
0:23.1	the double secret selection committee that selects all the guests who appear on STEM talk.
0:27.1	Hi, Don. Great to be here today.
0:30.3	So our guest today is Francesca Rossi, who for the past three years has been an AI ethics global
0:35.8	leader at IBM research. Prior to her time at IBM,
0:39.3	she was a professor of computer science at the University of Padova, Italy. And much of her research
0:44.1	today is focused on the future of artificial intelligence and the ethical issues surrounding
0:48.4	the development and behavior of AI systems. So unfortunately, I could not be here for this
0:54.0	interview.
0:54.6	And in my place, we have our colleague at IHMC, who is far better versed in AI than I am, Dr.
0:59.8	Brent Vendable.
1:01.0	Brent was just named the inaugural director of a new PhD program in intelligence systems and robotics
1:06.3	that is a partnership between IHMC and the University of West Florida.
1:10.5	Brent is a graduate of the University of Padava and had Francesca as her academic advisor.
1:15.3	So I suspect today's interview will be a lot of fun for the two of them.
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