Envision AI workshops are one part of the implementation effort for the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard. In this session, we aim to provide policymakers with a practical experience of how we think through responsible AI problems with our product teams. The session will be highly interactive and discussion-based, as we cover how Microsoft is evolving the mindset of our product teams to ask difficult questions and the rules that we have developed to enact our AI principles.
Over the past few years, principles around developing AI responsibly have proliferated and, for the most part, there is overwhelming agreement on the need to prioritize issues like transparency, fairness, accountability, privacy, and security. Yet, while principles are necessary, having them alone is not enough. The hard and essential work begins when you endeavor to turn those principles into practices.
In this keynote, Natasha Crampton, Microsoft’s Chief Responsible AI officer, will share insights about the building blocks that are the basis for Microsoft’s responsible AI program. More specifically, the journey in our effort to operationalize our AI ethical principles into practice. Natasha Crampton’s recent published blog has been the inspiration behind the topic of this year’s Data Science and Law Forum and her keynote will set the scene for all the other inside-out sessions that will take place over the course of this event.
Responsible development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence can only occur with a solid understanding of all aspects the impact of an application has. Due to early insight into both desired and undesirable effects of an application, many issues can be solved during the design phase. To identify all aspects of an application, organizations conduct impact assessments to enable successful AI deployment. Principles and frameworks can provide direction, but identifying and solving issues requires more.
In this panel, participants from different Dutch private and public organizations alike will discuss their experiences in organizing and conducting impact assessments when using AI/algorithms. We will discuss how impact assessments are addressed, what role they have in the development/implementation process, and what the most important insights are to achieve the best results in practice.
Moderator:
Joas van Ham, Senior Consultant in Responsible Tech, Considerati
Speakers:
Joris Krijger, Ethics & AI specialist, de Volksbank
Daniël Tijink, Board Member Strategy, Development, Healthcare and Ethics, ECP
Ivonne Jansen Dings, Strategic Advisor Technology and Society, Province Zuid-Holland
Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft Natasha Crampton leads Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI as the company’s first Chief Responsible AI Officer. The Office of Responsible AI puts Microsoft’s AI principles into practice by defining, enabling, and governing the company’s approach to responsible AI. The Office of Responsible AI also collaborates with stakeholders within and outside the company to shape new laws, norms, and standards to help ensure that the promise of AI technology is realized for the benefit of all.
Prior to this role, Natasha served as lead counsel to the Aether Committee, Microsoft’s advisory committee on responsible AI. Natasha also spent seven years in Microsoft’s Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries helping Microsoft’s highly regulated customers move to the cloud.
Prior to Microsoft, Natasha worked in law firms in Australia and New Zealand, specializing in copyright, privacy, and internet safety and security issues. Natasha graduated from the University of Auckland in New Zealand with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Information Systems.
Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft
Joris Krijger, Ethics & AI specialist, de Volksbank Joris Krijger works as an Ethics & AI specialist at the Dutch bank de Volksbank while also holding a PhD position at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on Ethics & AI. He was awarded a Dutch national prize both for his high-tech startup Condi Food (Rabobank Wijffels Innovation Award, 2014) as well as for his Philosophy thesis on technology, ethics and the financial crisis of 2008 (Royal Dutch Society of the Sciences, 2017). He presently works on bridging the gap between principle and practice in AI Ethics by studying the operationalization of ethical principles from an academic and practical perspective. Joris holds positions as a.o. Advisory Board Member at the Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Subject Matter Expert for CertNexus’ ‘Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist’ and Founding Editorial Board Member of Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics Journal.
Ethics & AI specialist, de Volksbank
Daniël Tijink, Board Member Strategy, Development, Healthcare and Ethics, ECP Daniël is the board member strategy development, healthcare and ethics at ECP. After his studies on Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Twente he obtained a PhD in Technology, Policy and Management studies at the University of Delft. For fifteen years, Daniël worked as a strategist and coordinator at the central government on topics such as internet and telecom, privacy and the social opportunities and consequences of ICT. At ECP, he chairs the Ethics workings group that developed the guidance ethics method, has an active role in the Dutch AI Coalitions and deploys several projects in the IT/healthcare space.
Board Member Strategy, Development, Healthcare and Ethics, ECP
Ivonne Jansen Dings, Strategic Advisor Technology and Society, Province Zuid-Holland Ivonne is strategic advisor technology and society at the province Zuid-Holland. In this role she is responsible for designing the hague’s ethical policy for shared digital space. She is also a board member of Code for NL, the Dutch network of developers and designers working on an open, fair an inclusive transformation of the government. Her expertise lies in understanding the uncertainties disruptive technologies can bring and building bridges between the different stakeholders that are involved, through agile development approaches, co-creation workshops, hackathons, manifestos, labs, pilots, or other types of creative research. Ivonne was previously head of program at De Waag, Amsterdam’s digital research lab. De Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts, with key interests in Open Data, Smart Citizens, Privacy, Future Internet, Open Policy, and Coding Morality.
Strategic Advisor Technology and Society, Province Zuid-Holland
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Joas van Ham, Senior Consultant in Responsible Tech, Considerati Joas is senior consultant in Considerati’s Responsible Tech team. He specializes in new technologies, their impact on users, stakeholders, and society at large. As Considerati’s expert on artificial intelligence, he did research on AI risk for the Dutch Parliament, co-wrote ECP’s Artificial Intelligence Impact Assessment, and helped develop new methods for designing and testing technology policy. In his mission to facilitate responsible innovation, Joas leads the Responsible Tech team to support public and private organizations to understand the impact of their technologies, facilitate responsible development and deployment, and to engage with stakeholders in a meaningful way. Joas holds a bachelor’s degree in Humanistics from the University of Humanistic Studies and a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Antwerp.
Senior Consultant in Responsible Tech, Considerati
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