Frontiers of AI in Business and Society
MAY 10, 2024
The University of Illinois Chicago
News
May 1 - The schedule for the workshop has been announced
About
Advancements in AI methodologies have accelerated exponentially in recent years, and their applications in business and societal domains have become ubiquitous. On the one hand, this presents significant opportunities for using these tools to address hard societal and business challenges. Examples include advancements in medical diagnostics and personalized healthcare, efficiently learning diverse consumer preferences, building more resilient supply chains, building environmentally sustainable business operations, and improving the allocation of societal resources to address problems such as crime and poverty.
On the other hand, the use of AI methodologies in such societal domains has raised several ethical and trust-related concerns and challenges requiring urgent policy design. For example, AI may exacerbate existing societal inequities by introducing large disparities in the allocation of the costs and benefits of AI deployments across population groups, with outcomes favoring one group over another. The black-box nature of AI methodologies may lead to unintended and harmful consequences and make them susceptible to malicious manipulation of their outcomes by strategic stakeholders. Furthermore, the concentration of data and AI prowesses in the industry raises concerns of misalignment between the firms' objectives for AI deployments and societal welfare.
This workshop aims to bring together experts and practitioners from various relevant disciplines to carve an interdisciplinary research agenda for (a) developing impactful yet responsible AI solutions in societal and business domains and (b) designing policy frameworks for addressing concerns arising from the use of AI in such domains.
Speakers
Sheldon Jacobson
Founder Professor of Computer Science
UIUC
David Jurgens
Associate Professor of Information Science
University of Michigan
Louise Keely
Advanced Analytics and Strategy Leader and Partner
Bain & Company
Anjana Susarla
Omura-Saxena Professor in Responsible AI
Michigan State University
Sebastian Martin
Assistant Professor
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Moontae Lee
Assistant Professor of Information and Decision Sciences
UIC
Brad Sturt
Assistant Professor of Information and Decision Sciences
UIC
Lajanugan Logeswaran
Senior Research Scientist
LG AI Research
Industry Panel
Mary Purk
Managing Director
AI @ Wharton
Pat Sullivan
Global Digital Engineering Lead and Principal
Ernst & Young
Louise Keely
Advanced Analytics and Strategy Leader and Partner
Bain & Company
Robert Blackwell Jr.
Founder and Chairman
Quant16
Sponsors
Organization
The workshop is organized by the Information and Decision Sciences (IDS) Department of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), with support from the College of Business Administration (CBA) of UIC.
Organizing committee:
Vijay Kamble (chair)
Yingda Lu (chair)
For inquiries or questions, please email the organizers at: