Abstract: 

Enabling responsible development of artificial intelligent technologies is one of the major challenges we face as the field moves from research to practice. Researchers and practitioners from different disciplines have highlighted the ethical and legal challenges posed by the use of machine learning in many current and future real-world applications.  Now there are calls from across the industry (academia, government, and industry leaders) for technology creators to ensure that AI is used only in ways that benefit people and “to engineer responsibility into the very fabric of the technology.”   Overcoming these challenges and enabling responsible development is essential to ensure a future where AI and machine learning can be widely used. In this talk we will cover six principles of development and deployment of trustworthy AI systems:  Four core principles of fairness, reliability/safety, privacy/security, and inclusiveness, underpinned by two foundational principles of transparency and accountability. We present on how each principle plays a key role in responsible AI and what it means to take these principles from theory to practice. We will cover open source products across different area of responsible AI umbrella, particularly transparency and interpretability, fairness, and differential privacy, that aims to empower researchers, data scientists, and machine learning developers to take a significant step forward in this space, building trust between users and AI systems.

Bio: 

Mehrnoosh Sameki is a technical program manager at Microsoft responsible for leading the product efforts on machine learning transparency within the Azure Machine Learning platform. Prior to Microsoft, she was a data scientist in an eCommerce company, Rue Gilt Groupe, incorporating data science and machine learning in retail space to drive revenue and enhance personalized shopping experiences of customers and prior to that, she completed a PhD degree in computer science at Boston University. In her spare time, she enjoys trying new food recipes, watching classic movies and documentaries, and reading about interior design and house decoration.