2017 Symposium

Thinking A.I. through Rastus Robot, the Westinghouse Mechanical Slave

Remaking Reasoning: Logics, Labor, and Automation

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.

Molly Steenson, Kate Darling, Rob Sparrow, Trevor Paglen

Joy Buolamwini, Moritz Hardt, Solon Barocas, Simone Browne

Invisible Images: Ethics of Autonomous Vision Systems

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.

Julie Brill, Nicole Wong, Commissioner Terrell Mcsweeny, Vanita Gupta

You can watch videos of the talks and panel discussions from both events below.

TheAI Now 2017 Reportprovides of summary of the Symposiums 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.

What is the Problem to Which Fair Machine Learning is the Solution?

Automating Musical Judgment: The Case of Mastering

Change is Inevitable: Its Progress Thats Optional

Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk 1

Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk 3

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk 4

A research institute examining the social implications of artificial intelligence

Danielle Citron, Ben Wizner, Blaise Agera Y Arcas, Genevieve Bell, Sendhil Mullainathan,

Rights and Liberties in an Automated World

Solon Barocas, Arvind Narayanan, Cathy Oneil, Deirdre Mulligan, John Wilbanks

Andy Stern, Karen Levy, Jonathan Sterne, Stephanie Dick

This Moment in Artificial Intelligence

Rights and Liberties Plenary Talk 2

Sarah Brayne, Patrick Ball, Ryan Calo, Lester Mackey, Nathaniel Raymond

The Data is Always Lying: How to Distinguish Insight From Snake Oil

Limited Vision: The Undersampled Majority