Ethical AI, Building Trust
From principles to practice, crafting effective AI governance is complex but essential to ensuring a human-centred and responsible future for AI. Ethical AI, Building Trust highlighted why ethics and accountability must guide the people and business leaders developing AI as new technologies continue to shape how we live, work and communicate.
With the rapid proliferation of AI ethics principles, the challenge lies in operationalizing them and defining the guardrails required to ensure responsible use. Discussions addressed policy gaps, shared governance best practices and how to balance innovation with a human-centred approach.
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Dr. Peter Lewis
Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence and Director of Mindful AI Research Institute (MAIRI) at Ontario Tech University
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Amber Mac
President, AmberMac Media, bestselling author and AI podcaster
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Dr. Steven Murphy
President and Vice-Chancellor, Ontario Tech University
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Dr. Hossein Rahnama
Edward Rogers Sr. Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Human Creativity, TMU; Founder and CEO, Flybits; Visiting Professor and Head of the sAIpien Program, MIT Media Lab; Co-Founder Digital Media Zon
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Hugh Mansfield
President, Bizcom
Hugh Mansfield is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance consultant with over 12 years of experience in the design and implementation of AI frameworks and model development. He currently leads an AI governance consulting firm Bizcom (bizcomgrp.com) assisting organizations in the implementation of regulatory compliance, responsible and ethical AI frameworks and the ongoing monitoring that follows. He is a recognized industry expert in AI Governance, Risk and Compliance.
Hugh holds a LLM in Innovation, Law and Technology from U of T Law, and has achieved his ISO42001 2023 (AI Governance) Senior Implementer accreditation. Hugh has also earned his CIPP-C privacy designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP); and is an adjunct faculty member of York Osgoode Law where he teaches Data Privacy and AI Incident Response. Hugh also sits on the Advisory Board of the Digital Governance Standards Institute of Canada on their Ethics and Technical committees and the Marketing committee of the AI Safety Foundation (AISF) of Canada. Hugh was a founding Advisory Board member of the University of Toronto’s (Rotman) master’s in management analytics program (MMA 2018-2022).