AAAI 2021: Accelerating the impact of artificial intelligence - Microsoft Research

The purpose of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, according to its bylaws, is twofold. The first is to promote research in the area of AI, and the second is to promote the responsible use of these types of technology. The result was a 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) schedule that broadens the possibilities of AI and is heavily reflective of a pivotal time in AI research when experts are asking bigger questions about how best to responsibly develop, deploy, and integrate the technology. Microsoft and its researchers have been pursuing and helping to foster responsible AI for years--developing innovative AI ethics checklists and fairness assessment tools like Fairlearn, establishing the Aether Committee to make principle-based recommendations, and laying out guidelines for human-AI interaction, to name only a few of the milestones in this area. As a natural extension, researchers from Microsoft are presenting papers at this year's AAAI that show the wide net they're casting when it comes to developing responsible AI and using it for applications that do good.