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Panel on Artificial Intelligence

Thu, Nov 30

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Hopkins Bloomberg Center

The panel on AI explored its rapid evolution, challenges like bias and safety, and its societal impact, emphasizing the need for robust evaluation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Panel on Artificial Intelligence
Panel on Artificial Intelligence

Time & Location

Nov 30, 2023, 2:00 PM

Hopkins Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

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Summary:

The panel on Artificial Intelligence (AI) opened with reflections on the rapid evolution of AI, marked by the introduction of tools like ChatGPT, which have significantly increased public awareness of AI capabilities. Rama Chellappa highlighted the problem of domain shift, where AI struggles to perform outside its training environment and noted the trade-offs between eliminating bias and maintaining system performance. These examples of challenges emphasized the need for robust evaluation and continuous improvement.


The discussion pivoted to the power dynamics and safety of AI deployment. Anjalie Field highlighted the unequal access to the resources needed to create state-of-the-art AI models. If deployed without addressing underlying biases, AI systems risk widening existing power imbalances. Anqi Liu talked about the challenges of defining safety in AI, particularly with general-purpose models, and emphasized the technical difficulties in explaining AI decisions due to the black-box nature of deep learning models.…


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