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Seeing What's Missing: Bringing Responsible AI Research Gaps into Focus Through A Landscape Analysis

About the Talk

For the past few years, Anna Neumann has been reviewing responsible AI research across major conferences like FAccT, AIES, and CHI. In this talk, she shares her findings – where researchers are focusing their efforts and, more interestingly, what we might be collectively missing. Using a simple framework ‘interactions, implications, and interventions,’ She maps out the landscape and highlights the gaps.

About the Speaker

Anna Neumann is a PhD researcher at the Compliant and Accountable Systems Group at RC TRUST, where she examines how AI systems influence societal power structures with a focus on responsible development. She studied Information and Communication Technology at Ruhr-University Bochum and now combines technical expertise with social science perspectives in her research. Her research focuses on identifying governance implications in AI supply chains through technical audits. She is particularly interested in how different stakeholders influence AI system behaviors and societal impacts, and how we can better measure, audit, and address power imbalances that emerge throughout the complex AI ecosystem.

Recommended resources

→ Tahaei, M., Constantinides, M., Quercia, D. and Muller, M., 2023. A systematic literature review of human-centered, ethical, and responsible AI. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05284. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05284

→ Corbett, E. and Denton, E., 2023, June. Interrogating the T in FAccT. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 1624-1634). Available at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3593013.3594104

→ Septiandri, A.A., Constantinides, M., Tahaei, M. and Quercia, D., 2023, June. WEIRD FAccTs: How Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic is FAccT?. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 160-171). Available at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3593013.3593985

→ Laufer, B., Jain, S., Cooper, A.F., Kleinberg, J. and Heidari, H., 2022, June. Four years of FAccT: A reflexive, mixed-methods analysis of research contributions, shortcomings, and future prospects. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency (pp. 401-426). Available at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3531146.3533107

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