Alexa Fairness in AI
New Opportunity? Yes
External/Internal: External
Funding Organization: Amazon
Deadline: 01-21-2022
Letter of Intent Required: Yes
Description:
Alexa AI-Natural Understanding’s (NU) mission is to build and enable engaging, world-class conversational AI capabilities that are broadly accessible. Under this call for proposals, we are seeking to fund research projects on the following topics:
- Transparency, explainability, and accountability in AI systems
- Theories of computational/algorithm fairness and factors that affect algorithmic trustworthiness
- Detecting and ameliorating adverse biases in data and algorithms, and fairness-aware design of algorithms
- Metrics and methods for designing, piloting, and evaluating systems that mitigate against adverse biases and ensure fairness, including the use of human-machine collaboration and decision support.
Note: if you plan to apply for this funding opportunity, you must notify Beth Colledge at bac39@psu.edu for application and funding notification and upload a copy of your proposal using the proposal template in InfoReady.
Award Amount: $80,000