Data scientist and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Roman Chowdhury will visit campus on March 6, as the featured speaker at the university's annual Spring Lecture. Her lecture, “Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity,” will begin at 7 p.m. in the Goldstein Hall of the Sheen Student Center.
Data scientist and artificial intelligence expert Roman Chowdhury will visit campus on March 6, as the featured speaker at the university's annual Spring Lecture.
Chaudhry's remarks will touch on how AI will impact the lives of students, what policymakers have missed — both positively and negatively — that will significantly impact students and what impact AI will have on the upcoming U.S. election cycle.
Chaudhry will also participate in a question-and-answer session with Vice Chancellor, Provost and Academic Director Gretchen Ritter and Hamid Ikbia, university professor and director of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Chowdhury's passion lies at the intersection between artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, working to create ethical, explainable, and transparent artificial intelligence. She is an active contributor to the conversation about responsible technology, and has bylines in The Atlantic, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and MIT Technology Review.
Chowdhury runs Parity Consulting, the Parity Responsible Innovation Fund, and is a Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.
Previously, she was the director of the META (Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability) team at Twitter (now X). Before that, she was the CEO and founder of Parity, an enterprise algorithmic auditing platform company. She previously served as Global Leader for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence.
Communications Access Interpretation (CART) and American Sign Language (ASL) will be available. For more information, or to request additional accommodations, contact Sarah McAndrew at provost@syr.edu.
