November 14, 2024
MILWAUKEE — Marquette University’s Center for Data, Ethics and Society and the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute (NMDSI) are partnering to host the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium, “From Politics to Practice,” Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Alumni Memorial Union, 1442 West Wisconsin Avenue.
The symposium will run from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with two keynote addresses. Dr. Alondra Nelson, former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will discuss “How to Govern the Future.” Dr. Casey Fiesler, associate professor of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder, will deliver a talk titled “When Data Is People,” which will examine ethics, privacy and ownership for research and the use of public data by AI.
The symposium will also feature panel discussions, workshops and networking on ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence and personal data management, including topics such as “AI Ethics in Practice” and “Policy and ethics of AI”.
Registration and the complete program of sessions are available online. Media interested in covering individual panels or the entire symposium should contact Kevin Conway at kevin.m.conway@marquette.edu. Requests for interviews with speakers and presenters must be coordinated in advance.
Launched by Dr. Thomas Kaczmarek in 2016, the Marquette Symposium on Big Data Ethics has been a leader in bringing together distinguished scholars, practitioners, and advocates who focus on these critical questions. Now hosted by the Center for Data, Ethics and Society, the annual symposium continues to be a space for diverse and provocative conversations to help ensure the ethical use of Big Data for the benefit of individuals and society in its whole.
About NMDSI
The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute (NMDSI), a partnership between Northwestern Mutual, Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is creating a technology ecosystem and making Southeast Wisconsin a national hub for technology, research, business and talent development. Since its inception in 2018, NMDSI has championed academic learning in data science and technology while propelling innovation in key areas including AI, data bias and ethics, behavioral economics, financial literacy and health and wealth inequalities. NMDSI-affiliated research projects use data science to solve difficult societal problems that have local and national impact.
About Marquette University
Marquette University is a Jesuit Catholic university located near the heart of downtown Milwaukee that offers a full range of majors across 11 nationally and internationally renowned colleges and schools. Through training hearts and minds, Marquette prepares our 11,100 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and professional students to lead, excel and serve as agents of positive change. And we are getting results. Ranked among the top 20 percent of national universities, Marquette is recognized for its undergraduate education, innovation and career readiness as the sixth best university in the nation for job placement. Our focus on student success and immersive, personalized learning experiences encourages students to think critically and engage with the world around them. When students graduate from Marquette, they are truly prepared and called to make a difference.
About Kevin Conway
Kevin is the Associate Director of University Communications in the Office of University Relations. Contact Kevin at (414) 288-4745 or kevin.m.conway@marquette.edu.