Workshop: Navigating Ethical AI Research Using Responsible Research and Innovation Cards

Description

Thinking about how you can responsibly and ethically conduct artificial intelligence (AI) research? There is real benefit to being equipped with Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) skills and knowledge; however, few learning resources are available at present. This workshop helps fill the gap in providing the knowledge and skills necessary for RRI competency. This "hands-on" experience of using RRI Prompts and Practice Cards involves card-sorting exercises to support your engagement with high level elements of RRI.

RRI Prompts and Practice Cards have been designed for researchers and innovators. They can be applied to project planning or used to reflect on an ongoing or completed project; they can easily support civic and governmental engagement activities. The event will consist of a short talk, followed by practice using the cards in small groups; attendees who do not have a specific project in mind to use in practice can work with themes instead.

This workshop will be led by Pepita Barnard, a human factors research fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute with the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub and the new Responsible AI UK program at the University of Nottingham, and John Robert Bautista, a postdoctoral fellow and Provost's Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science.