Artificial Intelligence and Ethics (Webinar)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already transforming our lives. As companies and states are increasing their investments in AI, both hopes and fears have come to the forefront. On one hand, AI could help us live longer, better, and more productive and creative lives. On the other hand, AI has also evoked concerns about profound risks to humanity, such as misinformation, inequality, and eroded social stability.

Ramayya Krishnan, Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy will address AI and Ethical Issues in a fireside conversation with Kaushal Chari, Dean of UWM’s Lubar College of Business. Dean Krishnan serves on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) and is an expert on socially responsible applications of AI.

About the Speakers

Ramayya Krishnan is the Dean and W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information systems and Public Policy. In 2022, he was appointed to the National AI Advisory Committee to the President and the AI Initiatives Office. He was appointed chair of the academic council for Responsible AI at the Department of Defense in 2023. Dr. Krishnan also serves on the IT and Services Advisory Board chaired by Gov. Tom Wolf of the State of Pennsylvania and is a member of the policy advisory board of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. His research focuses on consumer and social behavior in digitally instrumented environments. His work has addressed technical, policy and business problems that arise in these contexts and he has published extensively on these topics. At CMU, he is the founding faculty director of the Block Center for Technology and Society. He advises governments and policy making organizations on technology policy and the deployment of data driven policy making. He is an advisor to the President of the Asian Development Bank and is a member of the Geotech Commission of the Atlantic Council. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical and industrial engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and his PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin.

Kaushal Chari is the Sheldon B. Lubar Dean and Professor of Information Technology Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Sheldon B. Lubar College of Business. At UWM, he has also served as the Acting Vice Provost for Research, Acting Dean of the Graduate School, and Interim Executive Director of the Connected Systems Institute. In 2023, Dr. Chari was appointed to the Wisconsin Governor’s Task Force on Workforce and Artificial Intelligence. His scholarly research has focused on applying approaches from operations research, information systems, machine learning and computer science to address practical problems in the domain of software engineering, distributed systems, healthcare and decision support systems. Dr. Chari serves as an advisor to several startups. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and his MBA and PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Iowa.