Education stands as the cornerstone of our work at the Center for Responsible AI. Understanding the profound implications of AI on society necessitates a comprehensive and inclusive approach to education. We conduct cutting-edge research, offer a wide range of courses, and develop educational material geared towards students, professionals, and the broader community. Our goal is to empower learners with the knowledge and critical thinking skills to actively shape the trajectory of AI technology.
Responsible data science
Responsible Data Science is a comprehensive technical course for university students. This course tackles the issues of ethics, legal compliance, data quality, algorithmic fairness and diversity, transparency of data and algorithms, privacy, and data protection. This course was developed and offered for the first time in Spring 2019. Since then, it has been offered every Spring to undergraduate and graduate students in data science, computer science, and related disciplines at New York University.
The most recent offering of the course was in Spring 2023. The course will be offered again in Spring 2024. You can find the most recent lecture slides, lab notebooks, and readers on the course website. All course materials are publicly available online.
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Responsible AI literacy: A stakeholder-first approach
What is causal inference? And how can we use causal inference techniques to answer questions about the real world? Take a tour through our Causal inference playground for a rigorous and fun introduction to this topic!
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An Interactive Introduction to Causal Inference
Lucius E.J. Bynum, Falaah Arif Khan, Oleksandra Konopatska, Joshua R. Loftus, and Julia Stoyanovich
VISxAI: Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability 2022
Welcome to 2033, the year when AI, while not yet sentient, can finally be considered responsible. Only systems that work well, improve efficiency, are fair, law abiding, and transparent are in use today. It’s AI nirvana. You ask yourself: “How did we get here?”
You may have played a major role! As more organizations use algorithmic systems, there is a need for practitioners, industry leaders, managers, and executives to take part in making AI responsible. In our Algorithmic Transparency Playbook course, we detail how to influence change and implement algorithmic transparency in your organization.
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The Algorithmic Transparency Playbook: A Stakeholder-first Approach to Creating Transparency for Your Organization’s Algorithms
Andrew Bell, Oded Nov, and Julia Stoyanovich
In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2023, Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023 2023
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) refers to a growing world of sophisticated computer programs that “learn” from data in order to make decisions. Many of these AI systems are invisible to the public, yet the results of the decisions they make (or help humans make) have a huge impact on modern life.
Because of how important AI is in our lives, we should understand how it works so that we can control it together! NYU R/AI has partnered with P2PU, a public education non-profit, and with the Queens Public Library to develop We are AI: Taking control of technology, a public education course on AI.
This course is designed to be run as a learning circle: a facilitated study group for people who want to meet regularly and learn about a topic with others. There are no teachers or students in a learning circle—it is a group where everyone learns the material together.
The goal of the course is to introduce the basics of AI, discuss some of the social and ethical dimensions of the use of AI in modern life, and empower individuals to engage with how AI is used and governed.
We have also partnered with the NYU Tandon Ability Project to improve the accessibility of AI education across abilities and levels of expertise. The result of this work is our All Aboard! primer on making AI education accessible.
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All Aboard! Making AI Education Accessible
Falaah Arif Khan, Lucius Bynum, Amy Hurst, Lucas Rosenblatt, Meghana Shanbhogue, Mona Sloane, and Julia Stoyanovich
Center for Responsible AI, New York University 2023
Responsible AI is an intimidating topic. We have been developing comics for AI enthusiasts, practitiners and the public at large, to bring humor into the conversation, and help us – humans – take ownership of the debate about the role that AI should play in our lives.