David Gray Widder
Doctoral Candidate, Carnegie Mellon
David Gray Widder (he/him) studies how people creating "Artificial Intelligence" systems think about the downstream harms their systems make possible. He is a Doctoral Student in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech. He has previously conducted research at Intel Labs, Microsoft Research, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was born in Tillamook, Oregon and raised in Berlin and Singapore. He maintains a conceptual-realist artistic practice, advocates against police terror and pervasive surveillance, and enjoys distance running.
Developing Responsible AI with David Gray Widder and Dawn Nafus
Contemporary AI systems are typically created by many different people, each working on separate parts or “modules.” This can make it difficult to determine who is responsible for considering the ethical implications of an AI system as a whole — …