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Shalaleh Rismani on the TechVancouver stage

Shalaleh Rismani

Postdoctoral researcher; Executive Director, Open Roboethics Institute, McGill University

AIMontrealOn TechVancouver stages since 2017

Shalaleh Rismani is a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University and Mila, and executive director of the Open Roboethics Institute. She works on system safety for AI and is on the core writing team of the International AI Safety Report. She co-founded Generation R, an AI and robotics ethics consultancy, and spoke about it at TechVancouver in 2017.

On the TechVancouver stage ×1

First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Shalaleh

In their words

you have to be authentic you have to be transparent and you have to be genuine about where you stand and who you are

TechVancouver, Nov 2017 · watch at 04:33

by playing in the wilderness as a company we make sure that ethics truly belongs to the design of technology and systems and policies

TechVancouver, Nov 2017 · watch at 07:08
A few quotes can’t cover everything Shalaleh said on the TechVancouver stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Shalaleh

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Quick answers

What does Shalaleh Rismani work on?

System safety for AI. She is a postdoctoral researcher at McGill and Mila, executive director of the Open Roboethics Institute, and a core writer on the International AI Safety Report.

What was her TechVancouver talk about?

The first seven months of Generation R, the ethics consultancy she co-founded — juggling incompatible definitions of fairness across data scientists, executives and HR, and building inside a client's sandbox. Presented in November 2017.

What was Generation R?

A consultancy she co-founded to help businesses adopt AI and robotics ethically, across technology, business and policy. It was seven months old and had one client when she took the TechVancouver stage.

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