Held in conjunction with PRICAI 2025 

Mary Lou Maher

University of Sydney 🇦🇺

Human-AI Ecosystem as a basis for AI Governance and Education

18th November, (Time: 9:10-10:10) (Confirmed)

Abstract:

The Human-AI Ecosystem is framed as a dynamic network composed of people, data, and AI systems that collectively drive the creation, evolution and implementation of AI applications and solutions. This framework acknowledges the relevance of human identity at each layer: Creators, Creations, and Consequences. This presentation will highlight the various ways that human identity influences the socio-economic and cultural-political factors within the AI ecosystem. These factors shape the interactions and relationships between the layers, the actors, and the impact. From this ecosystem representation, we can identify the research approaches for studying AI consequences in governance and education.

Bio:

Professor Mary Lou Maher has recently joined the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. Mary Lou provides leadership in CS education, innovations in CS curriculum and pedagogy, and the impact of AI on how students learn. Most recently, she was the Director of Research Community Initiatives at the Computing Research Association (CRA). In this role, she led the Computing Community Consortium in research visioning activities and in securing funding for 12 AI education research projects. She has held appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, Columbia University, the US National Science Foundation, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her AI research areas include AI Literacy and Identity, Human-Centered AI, Human-AI Co-Creativity, and CS Education.