Independent Evaluation and Governance for Responsible AI
Practical guidance to help organizations evaluate and manage AI risk.
WORK WITH RUMMAN
Helping Organizations Navigate AI Governance and Accountability
Rumman partners with organizations that take AI responsibility seriously, offering independent evaluation, governance guidance, and support in operationalizing ethics. Her approach is hands-on and tailored to each organization’s needs.
Rumman collaborates with governments, corporations, civil society, and academic institutions to build solutions that navigate AI governance and accountability.
She develops strategic roadmaps, scalable frameworks, and cutting-edge approaches to independent AI evaluation. Through Humane Intelligence, she also drives community-led AI accountability initiatives, working with organizations ready to engage in rigorous assessment and responsible innovation.
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[Dr. Chowdhury's work] demonstrates how company AI ethics teams, often a mixture of data scientists, machine learning engineers and subject matter experts, are set to play an even larger role as AI software use goes mainstream and the potential penalties for biased algorithms go beyond a temporary setback in company reputation.
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Dr. Chowdhury’s expertise has been tapped by both Congress and the White House. She was also one of the organizers for the White House-endorsed hacking exercise on large language models to publicly identify potential vulnerabilities in large AI models.”
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Dr. Chowdhury approaches data science from the standpoint of quantitative social science. In her work, she is most passionate about ensuring that when AI is used to understand or predict human behavior, it’s done fairly and ethically.
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Dr. Chowdhury helped introduce a method for rewarding the discovery of algorithmic bias to DEF CON’s AI Village in 2021 when she was the head of Twitter’s AI ethics team. Chowdhury, now the co-founder of AI accountability nonprofit Humane Intelligence, said it’s not just about finding flaws but about figuring out ways to fix them.
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Recognized as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, Dr. Chowdhury is an AI ethicist and the founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit that specializes in red teaming of AI systems. She knows the dangers of AI better than most. She was the head of Twitter’s machine-learning ethics team, where she led research that found the company’s AI algorithms disproportionately boosted right-wing news sources during the 2020 U.S. elections.
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Data scientist Dr. Chowdhury sounds the alarm about online harassment and gender-based violence in the age of generative artificial intelligence. Moreover, she warns against the dangers of malicious use of new technologies affecting the most vulnerable, and calls for increased focus on the diversity of users.
