Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects. She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on AI, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit, and the Global Partnership on AI. She is the president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.
Francesca Rossi
IBM Fellow & IBM AI Ethics Global Leader
Participant In These Roundtable Discussions
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Oct 22nd
2016
Oct 22nd
2016
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Embodied AI
The increasing appreciation of the body’s role in cognition—that the brain-mind is embedded in a physical, sensory-motor system interacting with the real world—is shedding the dualistic straitjacket that has characterized “classical” artificial intelligence research. So, as proposed by Grady Booch, let’s imagine unleashing a technology platform using natural language processing and machine learning, such as... read more! »
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Mar 10th
2018
Mar 10th
2018
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Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament
The rapid development of technology in the modern era has inspired a movement known as transhumanism. Envisioned is a near future in which human bodies and minds will be transformed and enhanced through genomics, pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, and any number of prosthetic devices inside and outside our bodies. Advocates also hold out the... read more! »
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Oct 5th
2019
Oct 5th
2019
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Mechanization of Math
Proof, in the form of step by step deduction, following the rules of logical reasoning, is the ultimate test of validity in mathematics. Some proofs, however, are so long or complex, or both, that they cannot be checked for errors by human experts. In response, a small but growing community of mathematicians, collaborating with computer... read more! »
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Oct 15th
2022
Oct 15th
2022
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Coding and the New Human Phenotype
From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the... read more! »
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Oct 16th
2022
Oct 16th
2022
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Coding and the new Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?
The program GPT-3 can create language that gives the impression that it is thinking. What will our interaction with robots of greater and greater verbal agility mean in the near future? What sort of Other will these robots become, evolve to? Is awareness of a code incompatible with any form of realism, and what does... read more! »