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SUMMARY:AI Center Impact Talk by Vanessia Wu - "Balancing Innovation and R
 esponsibility: An Insider's Perspective on AI Safety"
DTSTART:20241108T120000
DTEND:20241108T130000
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DESCRIPTION:Vanessia Wu\, Marcel Salathé\nThe EPFL AI Center is pleased t
 o invite you its first Impact Talk\, by Vanessia Wu\, Former Senior Produ
 ct Manager on the Trust and Safety team at YouTube\, where she was in ch
 arge of Generative AI safety\, Comment/Livechat safety\, Hate Speech and m
 ore.\n\nThe talk will be followed by a light lunch.\n\nTitle\nBalancing In
 novation and Responsibility: An Insider's Perspective on AI Safety\n\nAbst
 ract\nWhen we think about AI safety\, our minds often gravitate toward cha
 llenges like misinformation and deep fakes. One area that is less discusse
 d but top of mind in large social media platforms such as YouTube/Google i
 s: “who is ultimately responsible”? For example\, say a creator used g
 enAI tools provided by one of these platforms and published gender-biased 
 content. Who is accountable: the creator\, the platform\, or the LLM model
  developer?\nThese questions matter greatly from business\, legal and regu
 latory perspectives\, which in turn affect how safe these organizations de
 sign their genAI products to be. Drawing on her extensive experience leadi
 ng AI responsibility initiatives at YouTube\, the speaker will shed light 
 on how large tech companies try to balance LLM innovations with responsibi
 lity considerations. \n\nBio\nVanessia was a Senior Product Manager on th
 e Trust and Safety team at YouTube\, where she was in charge of Generative
  AI safety\, Comment/Livechat safety\, Hate Speech and more.\nShe crafted 
 YouTube’s GenAI Responsibility principles\, led the team that pioneered 
 LLM-based detection\, and advised YouTube’s first GenAI product launches
  including DreamScreen (video) and DreamTrack (music). She spent 10 years 
 at Google in the Bay Area\, including with Google Search\, Android and Afr
 ica.\nPrior to that she worked in strategy consulting and startups. She re
 cently relocated to Switzerland and now works for Daydream\, an AI-powered
  search and discovery engine for e-commerce.
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