Unpacking Ethics in AI with Margaret Mitchell

Distinguished Lecturer AI seminar with Margaret Mitchell, Hugging Face

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2025
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Please join us for a Distinguished Lecturer AI seminar with with Margaret Mitchell, Researcher & Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 1-2 p.m. ET online.

Unpacking Ethics in AI 

This session will explore the evolving role of ethics in artificial intelligence, offering practical insights for researchers, students, and industry professionals. Key topics will be illustrated through real-world examples from recent generative AI developments.

Topics include:

• What “AI Ethics” means in the context of modern technology

• How human values are embedded in AI systems, intentionally or not

• The role of foresight in anticipating outcomes of new technologies

Bio

Margaret Mitchell is a researcher focused on machine learning (ML) and ethics-informed AI development in tech. She has published over 100 papers on natural language generation, assistive technology, computer vision, and AI ethics, and holds multiple patents in the areas of AI conversation generation and sentiment classification. She has been recognized as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics; in TIME's Most Influential People and Most Influential People in AI; and in Business Insider's Top People in AI Policy, Ethics, and Research. She currently works at Hugging Face as a researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist, driving forward work on ML data processing, responsible AI development, and AI ethics. She previously worked at Google AI as a Staff Research Scientist, where she founded and co-led Google's Ethical AI group to advance foundational AI ethics research and operationalize AI ethics Google-internally. Before joining Google, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on computer vision-to-language generation; and was a postdoc at Johns Hopkins, focused on Bayesian modeling and information extraction in natural language processing (NLP). She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Aberdeen and a Master's in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington. While earning her degrees, she also worked from 2005-2012 at Oregon Health and Science University to improve natural language processing for neurological disorders, and assistive & augmentative technology for non-verbal individuals. She has spearheaded a number of workshops and initiatives at the intersections of diversity, inclusion, computer science, and ethics. Her work has received awards from Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the American Foundation for the Blind and has been implemented by multiple technology companies. She is most known for her work pioneering "Model Cards" for ML model reporting; developing "Seeing AI" to assist blind and low-vision individuals; and developing methods to mitigate unwanted AI biases. She likes gardening, dogs, and cats.

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Micheal Wan
Research Scientist
The Institute for Experiential AI
Christian Reich
Professor of Practice
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Saeed Amal
Research Professor
Northeastern University
Vito Quaranta
Professor of the Practice, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Northeastern University
Agata Lapedriza
Principle Research Scientist
The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Jessica DiBiase
MPH and Data Analyst
Maine Health
Stuart Middleton
Associate Professor
University of Southampton
Angela Hosking
Dean and CEO
NU-Charlotte Campus
Gopal Rachum
CEO
RAiUK
Donnie Mitchem
Director, Behavioral Health Services
Outpatient Therapy & Community Services
Danny F. Scalise II
Public Health Director
Burke County Public Health
John Manning
Emergency Medicine Physician
Atrium Health
Matt Lewis
Founder, CEO and Chief Augmented Intelligence Officer
LL Mental
Arezoo Movaghar
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Robert Leeman
Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Sciences
Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University
Amanda Choflet
Dean, School of Nursing
Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University
Alisa Lincoln
Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research
College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Rafael Mestre
Lecturer
University of Southampton
Christine Zazzaro
President And Chief Executive Officer
McLeod Centers for Wellbeing
Liz Scharnetzki
Faculty Scientist I
MaineHealth
Ignacio Sarasua
Solution Architect
Nvidia
Aynsley Bernard
Principal Data Scientist
Kooth PLC
Aminat Adebiyi
Research Scientist
IBM Research
Trinity Coakley
Health Science and Psychology Student
Adam Woolley
Director of Assessment, Clinical Professor, Pharmacy and Health Systems Science
Elizabeth Mynatt
Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Sylvain Jaume
Director, School of Computer Science and Data Analytics
University of New England
Erin O'Neill
Candidate for M.S. in Health Informatics
Annika Schoene
Research Scientist
The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Doug Sawyer
Medical Director
Maine Medical
Karen Huhn
Professor of Physical Therapy and Program Director
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
David Harder
Professor & Director
University of Maine Institute of Medicine
Dan Koloski
Head of Learning Programs, Roux Institute and Professor of the Practice, College of Professional Studies
Northeastern University
Connie Yowell
Senior Advisor to the Provost
Northeastern University
Justin Manjourides
Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Sciences
Northeastern University
Aarti Sathyanarayana
Assistant Professor in Health Science and Computer Science
Northeastern University
Jeanne Latourelle
Senior Vice President, Precision Medicine
Aitia
John Brownstein
SVP and Chief Innovation Officer
Boston Children’s Hospital
Colleen Hole
Innovation Strategic Advisor
Atrium Health/Advocate Health
Jens Rueter
Chief Medical Officer; Medical Director
The Jackson Laboratory; Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative
Predrag Radivojac
Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of Research, Khoury College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Jason Springs
Co-founder & CEO
Endpoint Health
Timothy Ruchti
Director Algorithms
Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions LLC
Isaac Kohane
Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Patricia Geli
Co-founder, Managing Director, and COO
C10 Labs
Crystal Brown
CEO & Co-Founder
CircNova
David Levine
Associate Professor and Clinical Director
Mass General Brigham
Marinka Zitnik
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Larry Brilliant
CEO
Evity.AI
Rasu B. Shrestha
Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer
Advocate Health
John Halamka
Dwight and Dian Diercks President
Mayo Clinic Platform
Hoda Sayed-Friel
Former Executive Vice President
MEDITECH
Yakov Bart
Associate Professor of Marketing at D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Northeastern University
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Director of Research
Institute for Experiential AI
Michael Workman
Creative Director of the AI Literacy Lab
Northeastern University
Joanna Weiss
Executive Director of the AI Literacy Lab
Northeastern University
Sam Scarpino
Director of AI + Life Sciences
Institute for Experiential AI
David De Cremer
Dean of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Northeastern University
Manish Worlikar
Heads the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
Fidelity Institutional
Xuning (Mike) Tang
Associate Director of Responsible AI
Verizon
Ashok Srivastava
Senior VP and Chief Data Officer
Intuit
Jay Schuren
Chief Customer Officer
Data Robot
Rudina Seseri
Founder and Managing Partner
Glasswing Ventures
Dan Rosensweig
Chief Executive Officer
Chegg
Peter Norvig
Researcher
Google
Michael Nieset
Partner
Heidrick & Struggles
Dan Lothian
Executive Producer
The World
Aleksandar Lazarevic
Partner
Sigmoid Analytics
John Havens
Director of Emerging Technologies & Strategic Development
IEEE Standards Association
Michelle Gansle
VP of Global Insights and Analytics
McDonald's
Ronke Ekwensi
Vice President, Chief Data Officer
T-Mobile
Cynthia Dwork
Professor of Computer Science
Harvard University
Philip Brey
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology
The University of Twente
Linda Avery
Former CDAO
Verizon Communications, Federal Reserve Board of New York
Christo Wilson
Affiliate Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
Cynthia Rudin
Professor of computer science
Duke University
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor
Cornell Tech
Tina Eliassi-Rad
Core Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
John Basl
Associate Professor of Philosophy
College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Byron Wallace
Core Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
Sarah Ostadabbas
Core Faculty
Institute for Experiential AI
Alina Oprea
Associate professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Northeastern University
Auroop Ganguly
Director of AI for Climate & Sustainability
Institute for Experiential AI
Ozlem Ergun
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Northeastern University
Rai Winslow
Director of Life Science and Medical Research, Roux Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Experiential AI
Eugene Tunik
Director of AI + Health
Institute for Experiential AI
Melissa Landon
Technology and Business Strategist, AI in Life Sciences
Cyclica (Former)
Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Director of Life Sciences and Engineering
the Roux Institute
Laurent Audoly
Senior Advisor, AI Drug Discovery & Development
Institute for Experiential AI
Jared Auclair
Associate Dean of Professional Programs and Graduate Affairs; Director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory
Northeastern University
Emery Trahan
Interim Dean, D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Northeastern University
Hazel Sive
Dean, College of Science
Northeastern University
Carmen Sceppa
Dean, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University
Uta Poiger
Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Northeastern University
Beth Mynatt
Dean, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Northeastern University
Elizabeth Hudson
Dean, College of Arts, Media and Design
Northeastern University
James Hackney
Dean, School of Law
Northeastern University
David Fields
Interim Dean, College of Professional Studies
Northeastern University
Gregory Abowd
Dean, College of Engineering
Northeastern University
David Madigan
Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs
Northeastern University

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