One-U Responsible AI Initiative

The AI Alliance is one year old! 🎂 Over the last year, the University of Utah and 140+ organizations around the world have been working together to create the future of open, safe, and responsible #AI. The AI Alliance is made up of companies, startups, universities, research institutions, government organizations, and nonprofits that all share the same goal: To develop AI collaboratively, transparently, and with a focus on safety, ethics, and the greater good. The alliance has 93 active projects, 1,200 collaborators, 12 working groups, and 5 published guides to AI, and has led 30 events attended by 20,000 people—and it's just getting started! We've already made great progress and today, alliance leaders are committing to scale up the breadth and depth of work by 10x in the new year. The future of AI is bright!

Hear world-class experts Neli Ulrich and Jonathan Tward from Huntsman Cancer Institute discuss how AI is impacting cancer care. Join us Dec. 13 at The Leonardo! RSVP for free admission: https://lu.ma/cuv85a2g.

We're excited to announce our inaugural awardees: 7 faculty fellows spanning 6 colleges across the University of Utah, and a distinguished visitor from UC San Diego. Congrats to Brian Codding, Isabelle Freiling, Maggie French, Chenglu Li, Ana Marasović, Vineet Pandey, Mark Yandell, and David Danks!

SCI affiliate faculty member Warren Pettine, assistant professor at Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah, is moderating this AI in life sciences panel at 2 pm this Thursday, Nov. 14. The Utah Life Sciences Summit features a mix of speakers from academia (including other U faculty and leaders), government, and industry—read more at utahlifesciencessummit.com.

🤖 AI media depictions and armchair expertise abound today. Think humanoid robots, virtual assistants, deepfake videos, and self-driving cars, and how these sorts of things impact real and fictional societies. Where is the tech headed? What’s most and least plausible? Join our panel of University of Utah professors on Dec. 6 at The Leonardo to hear their thoughts. RSVP for free admission: lu.ma/sv2dlp6h. What do you want to hear the panelists discuss? Let us know in the comments! Moderator: Ana Marasović, Assistant Professor, Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah Panelists: • Elizabeth Callaway, Assistant Professor, Department of English • Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty, Division of Games, Entertainment Arts and Engineering • Aurora Clark, Professor, University of Utah Department of Chemistry • Kenneth Collins, Assistant Professor, Film & Media Arts Department • Guanhong Tao, Assistant Professor, Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah

📅 RSVP at lu.ma/5md3gvx7 to join us on Nov. 12! Satoshi Minoshima, MD, PhD will moderate an AI in Healthcare panel with cardiology and molecular medicine expert Eric Topol, MD and an impressive roster of University of Utah faculty members from the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah and University of Utah School of Medicine: Manish Parashar, Orly Alter, Karli Gillette, Andrew Arai, Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD, and Mark Yandell.

Join us on Nov. 12 for this public lecture from Peter Norvig, an AI expert who wrote the field's leading textbook—it's currently used in the University of Utah's AI course.

🤝 AI & YOU: Join us at The Leonardo 4 pm next Friday, Nov. 1, to learn about the ethical, social, and legal implications of AI and what you need to know in today's AI-enabled world. RSVP to attend for free: lu.ma/9olx8syl. One-U RAI's Penny Atkins will moderate a discussion among University of Utah experts from a variety of fields: -Leslie Francis, professor in the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and the Department of Philosophy (University of Utah College of Humanities) -Brent Kious, associate professor of psychiatry in Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah -Marina Kogan, assistant professor in Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah -Martell Teasley, associate provost for strategic academic initiatives and professor in the College of Social Work

Join us! This joint hire would also ideally contribute to the Responsible AI Initiative.

How can #ResponsibleAI improve health care and save lives? Where have we already made progress? Read a University of Utah Health recap of our Sept. 23 Symposium, which featured talks on how we can use AI to predict stillbirth risk and enhance medical image analysis.