April 17, 2024

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Visit by Fr. Paolo Benanti, AI advisor to Pope Francis, deepens Notre Dame’s commitment to socially responsible data and AI innovation

Best known for providing expert advice on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to Pope Francis, Fr. Paolo Benanti has a contagious enthusiasm for the ethics of technological advancement.

Benanti, a Third Order Regular of Saint Francis and lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, visited the University of Notre Dame in February to share his expertise in guiding data scientists and researchers to advance humanity-centered technology. 

Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Hackathon: Calculating the ROI of AI Ethics for Organizations

April 19, 2024 | 1:00 - 7:00 pm
Corbett Family Hall Academic Commons

Hosted by the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, hackathon participants will code and iterate on ideas for calculating the return on investment of AI ethics while networking with professionals from IBM, LogicaNow, TechBetter, and Notre Dame.

Winners will be selected by a panel of expert judges who will evaluate the code’s accuracy and alignment with the research paper titled "The Return on Investment in AI Ethics: A Holistic Framework", as well as the practicality and quality of the ideas generated by participants.

Guest lecturer, Hoda Heidari

April 24 | 3:30pm
131 DeBartolo Hall

Hoda Heidari, K&L Gates Career Development Assistant Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, will share her expertise in fairness and accountability of machine learning systems.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Soc(AI)ety Seminars session: "A Brave New World of AI Governance"

April 30 | 3:30pm
131 DeBartolo Hall

Join us for the final Spring 2024 session of the Soc(AI)ety Seminars as we host Kay Firth-Butterfield, lawyer, professor, and prolific writer.

Firth-Butterfield will touch on the topics of data, geopolitics and governance, regulation, and self-regulation while giving some examples of good and bad practices in various sectors, such as healthcare and banking.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Mendoza University Chair Public Lecture Series: A Journey Towards Human-centered AI

May 1 | 3:00pm
Jordan Auditorium Mendoza College of Business

In this short talk, Ahmed Abbasi, Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, will describe his 20-year journey from machine learning towards human-centered AI.

Professor Abbasi will conclude by discussing ongoing research in the Human-centered Analytics Lab that is pondering important policy questions like, "Is responsible AI impossible AI?"

Call for Soc(AI)ety Speaker Nominations

Deadline: TODAY April 17, 2024

We are seeking speaker nominations for the Soc(AI)ety Seminar Series, which will return in 2024-2025.

The series features broad perspectives for general audiences on the present and future impact of AI on society, and seminars are intended to inspire a dialogue on ethical and socially responsible Data & AI innovation.

This nomination form is open to ND faculty, staff, and graduate students. Submissions are due by April 17, 2024.

Volunteers Needed: Blue-Gold Data & Society Outreach Event

April 20 | 9:15am
Heritage Hall, Joyce Center

ND Athletics and the Lucy Civic Innovation Lab (LCIL) are partnering to offer a STEM / Data & Society outreach event for approximately 200 students in grades 3-5 from schools on the West Side of South Bend on the morning of the Blue/Gold game, Saturday April 20. 

We're looking for volunteers to help with the event, primarily working with small groups of students to help them with the activities.  

Student workshop opportunity: “Deliberative Technologies and Computational Democracy in Polarized Contexts”

Deliberative technologies enable people to listen at scale to each other, add their policy ideas, incentivize finding common ground across polarized publics, and enable synthesizing and ranking on ideas with wide consensus.

Students are invited to participate in a 4-day workshop from June 24-28 on the Notre Dame campus that will include 25 peacebuilding experts from around the world who will be exploring how to use these technologies in places like Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Kenya, and in the US. 

Spots are limited to the first 10 accepted applications.

We welcome you to pursue open opportunities at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, where data science, the newest technologies, and the humanities converge to rewrite the narrative of societal challenges. 

"The Lucy Family Institute will be an intellectual and interdisciplinary beacon that produces impactful and equitable data-driven solutions for the good of society."

– Nitesh Chawla, Founding Director