RLUK Digital Shift Forum | A cybernetics approach to responsible AI design - Ellen Broad, ANU
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 2022-03-02

RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences. 

The series aims to promote cross-sector discussion and debate, to enable knowledge exchange, and inspire collaborative endeavour across sectors and communities, for the benefit of RLUK members and the wider research and information management communities. More information can be found at https://www.rluk.ac.uk/dsf/

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Making not breaking: a cybernetics approach to responsible AI design
Ellen Broad, Research and Senior Fellow, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University

At Australia’s national university, a new approach to engineering responsible AI systems is being explored, drawing on reinvigorated cybernetic concepts. In this talk, Ellen explores cybernetics – the trans-disciplinary mid 20th century movement from which AI and computer science emerged – as an organising framework through which to reconsider how we build, maintain and use AI systems. Drawing on not only the technological elements comprising AI systems, but their human and ecological elements, cybernetics offers a way of reimagining the way we engineer AI today and the role it plays in our future.