#ResponsibleAI Talk Designing AI for Hybrid Decision-Making or... Why Assessing Appropriate Reliance Matters Speaker: Federico Cabitza (Bicocca) Date: September 22, 2025 Time: 3:30pm (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia ;)

3-year Responsible AI PhD studentships @ Politecnico di Torino (Turin) Focus: Responsible AI, computational social science, urban AI, climate, future of work. Start Mar 2026 (or earlier). Apply by 20 Sept 2025 → [email protected] (subject: “PhD studentships”).
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Visiting Faculty / ResponsibleAI@PoliTO Paid up to 12 month visiting professor positions are available at the Department of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Italy.

#ResponsibleAI Talk Principled and Reliable Certification of Generative Responsible AI Speaker: Alvin Chin  (UIC) and Gagandeep Singh (UIUC) Date: August 18, 2025 Time: 3:30pm (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia ;)

#ResponsibleAI Talk An Ode to Shannon: Information Lattice Learning for Semantic Compression, Creativity, and Knowledge Discovery Speaker: Lav Varshney, UIUC Date: August 11, 2025 Time: 3:30pm (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia ;)

Most Computer Science Papers Stay in the Lab. A Few Build the Future medium.com/@danielequer...

#ResponsibleAI Talk The AI Alignment Problem: Bridging Lab Research and Policy Solutions Speaker: Camilla Bignotti, Banca d’Italia Date: August 4, 2025 Time: 15:30 PM (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia ;)

We Need to Rethink AI Safety Before It Fails Us Again: 3 Suggestions medium.com/@danielequer...

#ResponsibleAI Talk The Parity Benchmark: A Multimodal Framework for Assessing Bias in LLMs Speaker: Shmona Simpson, CEO and Founder of Paritii Date: July 28, 2025 Time: 15:30 PM (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia ;)

The AI Paradox: Promising to Save the Climate While Helping Destroy It medium.com/@danielequer...

#ResponsibleAI Talk BRIO: A Bias and Risk Assessment Tool for Fair ML Systems Speaker: Giuseppe Primiero, University of Milan Date: July 14, 2025 Time: 15:30 PM (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

#ResponsibleAI Talk Building an Ecosystem for Responsible, Trustworthy Governance of AI Solutions Speaker: Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research Date: June 30, 2025 Time: 15:30 PM (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

Talk | Will AI Work for Us or Replace Us? www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVa...

#ResponsibleAI Talk Computer System Sustainability: Trends and Modeling Speaker: Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University Date: June 16, 2025 Time: 15:30 PM (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia ;)

AI Sees the City. But Should It?https://medium.com/socialdynamics/ai-sees-the-city-but-should-it-a3b1fc6ab77f

#ResponsibleAI Talk Designing Human-Centered AI for Collaborative Medical Decision Making Speaker: Maia Jacobs, Northwestern University Date: June 9 Time: 15:30 PM (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: On the Fundamental Limits of Privacy-enhancing Technologies 🗣 Speaker: Theresa Stadler, EPFL 📅 Date: May 19 ⏰ Time: 15:30 PM (London) 🌐 To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

Today at #TheWebConf: C3AI – Crafting & Evaluating Constitutions for AI How should we actually write rules for AI? C3AI provides a way to: 1. Design effective constitutions using psychology and public input. 2. Evaluate how well fine-tuned models actually follow the rules.

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Safe and Responsible AI Engineering in the Age of Foundation Models 🗣 Speaker: Qinghua Lu, CSIRO's Data61, Australia 📅 Date: April 14 ⏰ Time: 10:30 PM (London) 🌐 To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Potential Negative Societal Impact of Their Work 🗣 Speaker: Solon Barocas (@s010n), Microsoft Research 📅 Date: March 31 ⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (UK) 🌐 Join Online: send an empty email with the subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

#ResponsibleAI Talk: Estimating AI Assistants’ Influence on User Opinions & Democratic Discourse Speaker: Maurice Jakesch, Bauhaus University Weimar Date: March 24 Time: 3:30 PM (London) 🌐 Join Online: send an empty email with the subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Interactive Systems for Making AI Work for Us 🗣 Speaker: Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington 📅 Date: March 17 ⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London Time) 🌐 Join Online: To receive access details, send an empty email with subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Human vs. Algorithmic Recommendations in College Applications 🗣 Speaker: Faidra Monachou, Yale 📅 Date: March 10 ⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London Time) 🌐 Online: To receive access details, send an empty email with the subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia AT nokia-bell-labs ;)

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Constructing Automated Societies 🗣 Diletta Huyskes, University of Milan 📅 Date: February 3 ⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London) 🌐 Online: send an empty email with subject “Subscribe RAI” to my email address ;)

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Interpretable and Operational Data Privacy Protection in Machine Learning 🗣 Speaker: Bogdan Kulynych 📅 Date: February 24 ⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London) 🌐 Online: To receive access details, empty email with the subject “Subscribe RAI” to my email address ;)

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📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Building Trustworthy AI 🗣 Speaker: Soumya Banerjee, University of Cambridge 📅 Date: February 17 ⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London Time) 🌐 Join Online: To receive access details, send an empty email with the subject “Subscribe RAI” to my email address ;)

Can AI be Ethical?@ UNESCO (Part2) AI feels like giving a toddler a chainsaw and hoping for the best! medium.com/@danielequer...

Can AI be Ethical?@ UNESCO (Part1) medium.com/@danielequer...

🎙️ Adriana Alvarado Garcia, PhD from IBM Research, "Emerging Data Practices: Data Work in the Era of Large Language Models" 📍 #ResponsibleAI Online Talk 📅 Monday, 27 January 2025 at 3:30 pm UK time 💻 Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emerging-d...

What does Elon Musk want? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoX... 1. Elon Musk's Political Power Grab: Why Elon Musk Wants You to Fight Each Other (Squid Game Economics) 2. Super Rich vs. You 3. The Billionaire Playbook: Keep the Spotlight on Migrants, Not Inequality by @garyseconomics.bsky.social

Ah, sound detectors only in high-crime areas? Brilliant! Why not just tattoo 'inequality' on the city map while you're at it? Maybe try random placement? "in London, sound detectors have been deployed in urban areas with high crime rates" www.tomorrow.city/smart-sound-...

Fired by Amazon because the algorithm says you're not quick enough - embarrassing misuse of the concept of 'human-in-the-loop' youtu.be/Frgi_bf3UfU?...

** Upcoming Responsible AI seminar ** Paul Clarke, "Smart Machines - The Arms and Legs of Responsible AI" Where: Online When: Monday, 20 January 2025 at 3.30 pm (UK time) Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smart-mach...

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But at least he won’t go to jail … it s just doing alignment ;)

Why Computer Scientists Need to Wake Up to Geo-Political Data Threats (no hope for the EU) medium.com/@danielequer...

Fun podcast conversation (~20 min) explaining my view on human-centered AI. @stanfordhai.bsky.social "The case for human-centered AI" www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...

Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of truth (not perfect, but better than a lot of alternatives). It is a threat to the far right and the incoming administration. Of course it is being targeted. And since it cannot be directly targeted, the far right will target the everyday volunteer editors.

🎙️ Morgan Briggs from @turinginst: "Operationalising AI Safety through a Process-Based Governance Framework" 📍 Online Talk 📅 Monday, 13 January 2025 at 3.30 pm (UK time) 💻 Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/operationa...

Flashback! This week we're going back to episode 108 with Daniele Quercia @danielequercia.bsky.social and Luca Aiello @lajello.bsky.social of Bell Labs to talk about their work on mapping the senses of cities. theoverheadwire.com/2024/12/podc...

PhD Summer internships🌟 Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) is hunting for top PhD students to tackle cutting-edge AI ethics #ResponsibleAI projects. Competitive pay, iconic legacy, and big ideas. Apply by Jan 6, 2025! Details: social-dynamics.net/docs/interns... Team social-dynamics.net/newsletter/2...

📍 Online Responsible AI Talk Foundation Models in Healthcare Require Rethinking Reliability 🎙️ Thomas Grote from University of Tübingen 📅 Monday, 9 December 2024 at 3.30 pm (UK time) 💻 Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foundation...