Agenda

Join the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows for a virtual symposium:

Living with AI: The Human Impacts of AI


Thursday June 11, 2020, 8:50 am – 4:10 pm (EDT)

The keynote will now be at 3:00pm

thank you for being flexible

8:50-9:00 Introduction to Symposium by Organizers

9:00-9:50 Open Discussion Interactive Session

9:50-10:00 Break

10:00-10:45 Session 1: The Role of AI in Advancing Health

Panel co-chairs: Shadi Mamaghani, Wynn Meyer, Maria Graciela Carranza

  • Dina Katabi, Ph.D., Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Zhiyong Lu, Ph.D., FACMI, Senior Investigator, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

  • Fay Cobb Payton, Ph.D., M.B.A., Program Director, National Science Foundation

10:45-11:30 Session 2: The Role of AI in Hiring and Workforce Development

Panel co-chairs: Lisa Poggiali, Brianna Farber, Gina Roussos

  • Tara Sinclair, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor, George Washington University

  • Frida Polli, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Pymetrics

11:30-12:30 Lunch Break

12:30-1:15 Session 3: The Role of AI in The Criminal Justice System

Panel co-chairs: Gina Roussos, Lisa Poggiali, Brianna Farber

  • Sharad Goel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Stanford

  • Rashida Richardson, J.D., Director of Policy Research, AI Now Institute, New York University

  • Nicol Turner Lee, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Center for Technology Innovation, The Brookings Institution


1:15-2:00 Session 4: The Role of AI in Producing Your Produce

Panel co-chairs: Salah Issa, Peggy Biga

  • Girish Chowdhary, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Steve Mirsky, Ph.D., Research Ecologist, USDA Agricultural Research Services

2:00-2:15 Break

2:15 - 3:00 Session 5: The Role of Governments and Industry in AI Policy Development

Panel co-chairs: Shadi Mamaghani, Goli Yamini

  • Georgia Tourassi, Ph.D., Director of the National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratories

  • Sandra Wachter, M.L., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

  • Dalal Najib, Ph.D., MPP., Director, Science and Engineering Capacity Development, National Academy of Sciences

3:00 - 4:00 Plenary Keynote Address (Revised time!!)

  • Ruha Benjamin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Princeton University

  • “2020 Vision: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society"

4:00 - 4:10 Closing Thoughts from Organizers