AI Ethics cannot live merely in manifestos and memos. To effectuate ethics in AI, these principles must also live in roadmaps, metrics and incident playbooks. This talk will consider how AI ethics functions in practice, built around three pillars—(1) principled clarity, (2) pragmatic instrumentation, and (3) participatory accountability—and will focus on how to translate high-level principles (e.g., safety, fairness) into decision criteria and governance cadences that keep pace with research and product cycles. This talk with examine real tensions (e.g., capabilities v. controllability, openness v. misuse, global norms v. local harms) and how to make and document decisions under conditions of uncertainty. The goal: decisions and outcomes that are defensible, iterative and scalable.

Bio:

Chloé Bakalar was the chief ethicist at Meta. She joined Meta (then-Facebook) in 2019, where she spearheaded and developed the company’s approach to applied AI and GenerativeAI Ethics. She continued to work across the company to lead and advance AI Ethics at Meta, which involved both (1) identifying and building understanding of the ethical considerations around Meta’s AI-powered platforms, products and systems; and also (2) designing and operationalizing ethics tooling to enable responsible decision-making and ethics-forward product work.

Bakalar’s academic research is in moral/political philosophy and public law (esp. civil rights and civil liberties), focusing on the intersection of information technology, ethics and democratic citizenship. She was a Values and Public Policy Postdoctoral Associate with appointments at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values (UCHV), Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP). During that time, she co-founded the Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics, an interdisciplinary academic program aimed at empowering AI design and deployment in order to improve positive impacts on people and society while reducing potential risks. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from New York University.

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