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Fellowship in AI Research (FAIR) Symposium
31 January 2025 | The Forum Hotel, UVA Darden School of Business, Charlottesville
The Symposium will feature presentations from last year's fellowship recipients, Tom Hartvigsen and Mona Sloane, who are principal investigators leading research on critical topics on ethical AI in business. The half-day event is intended for academic researchers, and will include ample time for discussion and a networking lunch. If you are an AI researcher at UVA or elsewhere, who is active or interested in the applications and implications of ethical AI in business, please plan to join us!
The 2025 FAIR Symposium will be held at the UVA Darden School of Business on Friday, January 31, 2025 in the Socrates Classroom at The Forum Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Schedule (tentative)
| 9:30 a.m. | Check-in |
| 10 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 10:15 a.m. | Session 1: Tom Hartvigsen, Steven Johnson, Marteen Sap (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch and Networking |
| 12:30 p.m. | Session 2: Mona Sloane, Roshni Raveendhran, Sara Lebovitz |
| 1:45 p.m. | Announcement of 2025 FAIR Recipients |
| 2 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
Session Information
| Session 1: Detecting and Mitigating Online Toxicity with Language Models |
| Toxic language undermines the internet's promise of free expression, access to quality information, and meaningful social connections. While explicit biases like racial slurs are often easily identified, implicit biases like stereotyping are pervasive, harder to detect, and equally harmful. So far, automated content moderation systems have struggled to capture subtle biases because toxicity changes quickly over time and is heavily context-dependent. In this session, we will explore the challenges and opportunities of using Large Language Models (LLMs) as fast, effective, and equitable content moderators. |
| Session 2: New Frontiers of Innovation and Accountability: AI and Recruiting |
| This session bridges the significant knowledge gaps in human resources surrounding the professional utilization of AI in recruiting (including generative AI systems) and the existing landscape of recruiting AI tools. It will enhance our understanding of AI's integration into high-stakes decision-making and discuss the development of effective regulations and compliance mechanisms in the hiring and employment domain. The first part of the session will report out on ongoing research on the HR tech industry and on recruiters’ use of AI. The second part will be interactive and engage participants in a discussion of our prototype of a public recruiting AI database, designed to facilitate risk-sensitive recruiting AI procurement and meaningful AI auditing at scale. |
For more information on FAIR, please visit the webpage below.
Upcoming Events
Stay tuned for upcoming events hosted by the LaCross AI Institute and collaborative events happening across grounds. Future events will include:
- Salon Series
- Research Seminar Series
- Distinguished Speaker Series
- SDS Datapalooza
- NVTC AI Summit
Past Events
UVA Conference on Leadership in Business, Data and Intelligence
5-6 December 2024 | The Forum Hotel, UVA Darden School of Business, Charlottesville
This second annual conference hosted by UVA Darden and organized in partnership with the UVA School of Data Science will examine "The Value Chain of Ethical AI." Academics and practitioners will explore where AI is headed over the next five years, the opportunities and risks businesses face, and how, as responsible leaders in business, we can navigate these “once in a generation” times.
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