AI Ethics & Policy
The MIT AI Ethics & Policy group aims to facilitate interdisciplinary, institute-wide discussions about AI technologies and the concerns they motivate. We want to provide a space for people in the MIT community to ask questions, gather feedback on ideas or research, learn from others, and connect with a community engaged with these topics.
Events in spring 2024
- 4/23/2024: Career Paths in Responsible Tech Part I: Government/Civil Society Track
- 4/25/2024: Career Paths in Responsible Tech Part II: Academia Track
- 5/6/2024: Career Paths in Responsible Tech Part III: Industry Track
Events in fall 2023
- 10/19/2023: From Research to Scalable Responsible AI with Shivani Poddar
- 11/2/2023: The EU AI Act: Which Lessons for US AI Regulation (Joint with the AI & Tech Policy Caucus at HKS)
- 11/16/2023: Explainable Machine Learning in the Era of LLMs with Satyapriya Krishna
- 12/13/2023: Discussion Session on “Measurement and Fairness”
Events in spring 2023
- 04/06/2022: Mixer with the Harvard Kennedy School Emerging Technologies Caucus
- 04/20/2022: A Technical Perspective on the EU AI Act
Events in fall 2022
We are meeting every second week in semesters, with an alternation of community-driven events. * denotes that a speaker that will be presenting virtually.
- 09/29/2022: Lily Xu AI for Social Good and its relation to AI Ethics
- 10/13/2022: Umang Bhatt* Algorithmic Transparency in Machine Learning
- 10/27/2022: Johann Gaebler Causal Conceptions of Fairness and Their Consequences
- 11/15/2022: Lizzie Kumar Equal credit opportunity in algorithms: Aligning algorithmic fairness research with U.S. fair lending regulation
- 11/17/2022: Wastewater Technologies: Technological, Legal, and Philosophical Perspectives, co-hosted with the Institute for Technology and Global Health
- 11/17/2022: Sarah Cen and Manish Raghavan The Right to be an Exception in Data-Driven Decision-Making
- 12/01/2022: Algorithmic Audits in Economic Context, co-hosted with the Science Policy Initiative
Join the discussion
We welcome and encourage all members of the MIT community. Questions of AI ethics span engineering, humanities, business, and the sciences, so the more perspectives and thoughtful participants, the better!
If you are interested in joining the dicussion, please add yourself to our mailing list for the latest information. If you have specific articles or papers you would like to discuss, please contact the organizing team.