The AIWS Standards and Practice Committee welcomes the two newest members: Professor Jason Furman and President Marc Rotenberg.
The Committee is responsible for:
- Updating and collecting information on threats and potential harm posed by AI.
- Connecting companies, universities, and governments to find ways to prevent threats and potential harm.
- Engaging in the audit of behaviors and decisions in the creation of AI.
- Creating both an Index and Report about AI threats – and identifying the source of threats.
- Creating a Report on respect for, and application of, ethics codes and standards of governments, companies, universities, individuals and all others…
There are 21 members of AIWS Standards and Practice Committee found by Michael Dukakis. Recently, the board has welcomed two innovative leaders to AIWS Standards and Practice Committee.
The first one is the professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) — Prof. Jason Furman. He is also nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. This followed eight years as a top economic adviser to President Obama, including serving as the 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from August 2013 to January 2017, acting as both President Obama’s chief economist and a member of the cabinet.
The second is Mr. Marc Rotenberg, President of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an independent public interest research organization in Washington, DC. Professor Rotenberg has served on advisory panels for the American Bar Association Section on Criminal Justice, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the National Academy of Science (NAS), the Organization of American States (OAS), UNESCO, and the OECD. He is a former chair of the Public Interest Registry, which established and manages the .ORG domain.