Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara,California,and incorporated in Delaware. It is a software and fabless company which designs and supplies graphics processing units (GPUs),application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science and high-performance computing,as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Nvidia is also a dominant supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software.
Bob Kahn is an American electrical engineer who,along with Vint Cerf,first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP),the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
The ethics of artificial intelligence covers a broad range of topics within the field that are considered to have particular ethical stakes. This includes algorithmic biases,fairness,automated decision-making,accountability,privacy,and regulation. It also covers various emerging or potential future challenges such as machine ethics,lethal autonomous weapon systems,arms race dynamics,AI safety and alignment,technological unemployment,AI-enabled misinformation,how to treat certain AI systems if they have a moral status,artificial superintelligence and existential risks.
Romesh T. Wadhwani is an Indian-American billionaire,businessman and head of investment firm SAIGroup. He is the former chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group,a private equity firm for software,Internet and technology services companies. He established the Wadhwani Foundation for economic development in emerging economies,with an initial focus on India. Initiatives in India include the National Entrepreneurship Network.
Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-American computer scientist,known for establishing ImageNet,the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s. She is the Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford University and former board director at Twitter. Li is a co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a co-director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. She served as the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018.
Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, otherwise known as Partnership on AI,is a nonprofit coalition committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence. Coming into inception in September 2016,PAI grouped together members from over 90 companies and non-profits in order to explore best practice recommendations for the tech community.
Terah Lyons is known for her work in the field of artificial intelligence and technology policy. Lyons was the executive director of the Partnership on AI and was a policy advisor to the United States Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith in President Barack Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Rumman Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi American data scientist,a business founder,and former responsible artificial intelligence lead at Accenture. She was born in Rockland County,New York. She is recognized for her contributions to the field of data science.
Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar is the Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology. Previously,she was a senior director of Machine Learning research at NVIDIA and a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services. Her research considers tensor-algebraic methods,deep learning and non-convex problems.
Timnit Gebru is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI),algorithmic bias and data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI,an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research. She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR).
Rama Akkiraju is an Indian-born American computer scientist. She is vice president of AI for IT at Nvidia and performs research in the field of artificial intelligence.
Rediet Abebe is an Ethiopian computer scientist working in algorithms and artificial intelligence. She is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California,Berkeley. Previously,she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Olga Russakovsky is an associate professor of computer science at Princeton University. Her research investigates computer vision and machine learning. She was one of the leaders of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition challenge and has been recognised by MIT Technology Review as one of the world's top young innovators.
Mariarosaria Taddeo is an Italian philosopher working on the ethics of digital technologies. She is Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies at the Oxford Internet Institute,University of Oxford and Dslt Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute,London.
Anja Kaspersen is a director for Global Markets Development,New Frontiers and Emerging Spaces at IEEE,the world's largest technical professional organisation. Kaspersen is also a senior fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs where she co-directs the Artificial Intelligence Equality Initiative with Wendell Wallach. With scholars and thinkers in the field of technology governance,supported by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and IEEE,Kaspersen and Wallach provided a Proposal for International governance of AI.
Rashida Richardson is a visiting scholar at Rutgers Law School and the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and the Law and an attorney advisor to the Federal Trade Commission. She is also an assistant professor of law and political science at the Northeastern University School of Law and the Northeastern University Department of Political Science in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Black in AI,formally called the Black in AI Workshop,is a technology research organization and affinity group,founded by computer scientists Timnit Gebru and Rediet Abebe in 2017. It started as a conference workshop,later pivoting into an organization. Black in AI increases the presence and inclusion of Black people in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) by creating space for sharing ideas,fostering collaborations,mentorship,and advocacy.
Nvidia GTC is a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference for developers that brings together developers,engineers,researchers,inventors,and IT professionals. Topics focus on AI,computer graphics,data science,machine learning and autonomous machines. Each conference begins with a keynote from Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang,followed by a variety of sessions and talks with experts from around the world.
Kay Firth-Butterfield is a lawyer,professor,and author specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence,international relations,Business and AI ethics. She is the CEO of the Centre for Trustworthy Technology which is a Member of the World Economic Forum's Forth Industrial Revolution Network. Before starting her new position Kay was the head of AI and machine learning at the World Economic Forum. She was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dan Hendrycks is an American machine learning researcher. He serves as the director of the Center for AI Safety.
