Trustworthy AI, Spring 2025

CSCI 6907 / EMSE 6992

Class Information

Classroom: SEH B1270. This is one of the lecture halls in the basement of the SEH building. If you go into the building and descend the stairs, turn right at the bottom.

Meeting Time: Mondays 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM. Typically, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM will feature an invited speaker, followed by an in-class exercise.

Remote Access: This course is intended to be in-person, but most guest lectures are public. If you can't attend, use the Zoom link below. Note that in-class exercises are essential for learning, so this is not a remote course.

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Course Goals

This class will explore the technical and societal approaches that are being developed to deploy trustworthy AI (TAI) systems in real-world situations. The course is open to graduate students across the University and will explore topics that may include bias in AI, misinformation and disinformation, IP rights and credit assignment in generative AI, ethical frameworks for AI deployment, and human oversight and governance models. Course work will focus on four large projects, structured to be approachable from social, legal, scientific or computational perspectives.

Lecture Schedule

  1. Monday January 13, 2025: Introduction to Trust & AI by Robert Pless
  2. Monday January 20, 2025: Holiday
  3. Monday January 27, 2025: Model Risk Management by Patrick Hall
  4. Monday February 3, 2025: Class replaced by: TRAILS Conference
  5. Monday February 10, 2025: Natural Language Processing & Language Models by Rebecca Hwa
  6. Monday February 17, 2025: Holiday
  7. Monday February 24, 2025: Mechanisms of Human Oversight in Training AI Systems by Shi Feng
  8. Monday March 3, 2025: Humanistic Views on Trust, Creativity, and AI by Alexa Joubin
  9. Monday March 10, 2025: Spring Break
  10. Monday March 17, 2025: Trust Models and Misinformation in Social Media by David Broniatowski
  11. Monday March 24, 2025: Global AI Governance by Susan Aaronson
  12. Monday March 31, 2025: Visual Language Models by Robert Pless
  13. Monday April 7, 2025: LLMs in Scientific Workflows by Ryan Watkins
  14. Monday April 14, 2025: Circulatory Legitimacy: Anthropological Riffs on Trust in Authorship and Education by Alexander Dent
  15. Monday April 21, 2025: Perspectives on AI Risk, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love AI" by Bill Regli
  16. Monday April 28, 2025: Safety and Systems Assurance in Deployed Systems by Peng Wei
  17. Designated Monday April 30, 2025:
  1. Final Project