Trinity College Dublin establishes 1.5m AI Accountability Lab [Video]

Trinity College Dublin has established a new group to artificial intelligence (AI) accountability research.

The AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) will be led by Dr Abeba Birhane, a research fellow at the ADAPT Research Ireland Centre within the School of Computer Sciences and Statistics at Trinity.

AIAL will focus on critical issues across broader topics such as the examination of opaque technological ecologies and the execution of audits on specific models and training datasets. 

The research group is supported by a grant of just under €1.5m from three groups: the AI Collaborative, an initiative of the Omidyar Group; Luminate; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The lab will examine the impacts of AI technologies and aims to hold powerful entities for technological harms while advocating for policies rooted in evidence.

Research will specifically address potential corporate capture of current regulatory processes, outline justice-driven model evaluation, as well as audits of deployed models, specifically those used on vulnerable groups. 

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