Francesca Rossi
Biography
Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects. She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on AI, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit, and the Global Partnership on AI. She is the president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.
Sample Works
Roundtable Appearances
October 16, 2022 · ▶ Video
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?
The program GPT-3 can create language that gives the impression that it is thinking. What will our interaction with robots of greater and greater verbal agility mean in the near...
Ned Block, Kyunghyun Cho, Katherine Elkins, Noah Giansiracusa, Francesca Rossi, Dennis Yi Tenen
October 5, 2019 · ▶ Video
Mechanization of Math
The roundtable explores how mathematical proofs too complex for human verification are now being certified by machine systems. It addresses whether mathematics should require...
Stephanie Dick, Branden Fitelson, Thomas Callister Hales, Michael Harris, Francesca Rossi
March 10, 2018 · ▶ Video
Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament
The rapid development of technology in the modern era has inspired a movement known as transhumanism. Envisioned is a near future in which human bodies and minds will be...
William Grassie, Stephen Post, Ph.D., Francesca Rossi, Lee Silver, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Ph.D.
October 22, 2016 · ▶ Video
Embodied AI
The event explores how physical embodiment enhances artificial intelligence cognition. The core concept involves deploying natural language processing platforms -- like IBM Watson...
Michael Bess, Ned Block, David Hanson, Jeffrey Kephart, Francesca Rossi