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On the alignment of control and accountability in the development and use of AI

Abstract

Developing and using AI systems creates particular challenges for governance and uncertainty management due to these systems` capabilities for autonomous learning. Development and use become much more intertwined as the systems change with their use, which reduces their transparency and predictability for both dervelopers and users. Efforts to render AI more explainable and interpretable are one answer to these challenges, but they need to be embedded in a broader framework which helps to align control and accountability across a wide range of stakeholders  and across the AI life cycle.

Networks of accountability within which negotiations about distributing control and accountability take place are suggested as such a framework to govern AI. Moreover, the work of developers themselves is scrutinized: more agility, growing public scepticism, and increasing potentials of AI for replacing human developers create new uncertainties in their own work. Consequences for needed skills, meaningfulness of work, and career development are discussed.

About the speaker

Gudela Grote is a Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at ETH Z眉rich. She received her doctorate at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The main objective of her research is to provide psychologically based concepts and methods for integrative job and organizational design, taking into consideration the changing technological, economic and societal demands and opportunities. A special interest in her research are the increasing flexibility and virtuality of work and their consequences for the individual and organizational management of uncertainty. Application fields for her research are e.g teamwork and standardization in high-鈥媟isk systems, effects of new technologies including AI on work processes, and assessing and changing individuals' uncertainty and design mindsets.

Prof. Grote is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and member of the Swiss National Research Council. In her various roles, such as Past President of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology and member of the scientific advisory board of the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, she strives to promote evidence-based practice and policy-making.

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Pascale Le Blanc is a full Professor of Workplace Innovation and Sustainable Employability at the Human Performance Management Group of 黑料福利网 and co-chair of the Human Performance Management Group. She will host Professor Dr. Gudela Grote from ETH Z眉rich.

Registration is required but free of charge.