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Facebook picks 6 projects from India for AI ethics research
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Sep, 2019
To encourage research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics, Facebook
has selected six projects from India that will focus on three key areas -
governance, cultural diversity and operationalising ethics.
The winners, declared on Friday, included the top two submissions in each category.
Facebook
announced the Ethics in AI research awards in June with a regional
focus of India. The proposed budget should be within Rs 10,00,000 to Rs
20,00,000, Facebook said.
In the operationalising ethics
category, the two selected projects include "Patient-Centric Frameworks
for the Evaluation of AI-Enabled Medical Tests" that has Amit Sethi of
the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT Bombay) as the principal
investigator and "Targeted Bias in Indian Media Outlets" that has
Animesh Mukherjee of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT
Kharagpur) as the principal investigator.
One of the research
projects picked for the governance category, "Ethical Implications of
Delegating Decision-making Journey to AI Systems", has Rahul De from the
Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM Bangalore) The
other project selected for the governance category, "A‘Public Law of
Information' for India", has Sudhir Krishnaswamy from the Centre for Law
and Policy Research as its principal investigator.
"Mitigating
Bias in Face Recognition for Vast Regional Diversity in India" which has
Richa Singh from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi
(IIIT-Delhi) as principal investigator is one of the projects selected
in the cultural diversity category.
The other project is
"Regulatory Impact Assessment of the National AI Market Place of India"
which has Varadharajan Sridhar from the International Institute of
Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-Bangalore) as principal
investigator.
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