Interview with IBM Fellow and AI Global Ethical Leader Francesca Rossi
You'll immediately think of Francesca Rossi when discussing AI and ethics.
Francesca is not only the Global Leader for AI Ethics at IBM, but also the president of the worldwide association of AI (AAAI) and a fellow of the European one (EurAI).
She has been president of IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI),
and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of AI Research.
Her research interests focus on artificial intelligence and specifically the areas of constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, and collective decision making. She is also a champion and recognized global leader in addressing ethical issues in the development and behavior of AI systems, particularly for decision support systems for group decision making.
In this interview, she discusses her career history, interests in AI, and traveling from Italy to the United States to work for IBM. She shares her experience as an Italian professor and her recent meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican to continue advancing the Rome Call for AI ethics, an agreement established in 2020 by The Pontifical Academy for Life, IBM and Microsoft to support an ethical approach to AI.
An educational interview with a real role model for everyone!
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