Theodora Skeadas on Red Teaming Humanitarian AI Applications
About this episode
The episode features Theodora Skeadas discussing AI red teaming and its application in humanitarian contexts.
In this Humanitarian AI Today Voices flashpod, Theodora Skeadas, Head of AI Red Teaming with Humane Intelligence, joins guest host Brent Phillips to unpack for staff from humanitarian organizations what AI red teaming is and how Humane Intelligence approaches carrying out AI evaluations. They also discuss the nonprofit’s mission to make AI systems more accountable, fair, and safe and the organization’s latest initiatives. The discussion traces the evolution of Humane Intelligence’s evaluation work, highlighting recent milestones such as the open-source release of their evaluation application and their expanded bias bounty programming in collaboration with platforms like Zindi. Theodora outlines the fundamentals of artificial intelligence evaluations and red teaming methodologies applied to humanitarian applications. The discussion offers a practical introduction to the testing and evaluation of generative AI models, specifically tailored to help staff from aid organizations understand how these systems operate and learn how to carry out effective risk assessments. For humanitarian actors looking to ethically integrate artificial intelligence into active crises workflows, the…
People in this episode
Host: Brent Phillips
Guest: Theodora Skeadas
Topics covered
- AI red teaming
- humanitarian applications
- accountability in AI
- risk assessment
- generative AI models
Keywords
- AI red teaming
- humanitarian AI
- evaluations
- bias bounty
- risk assessments
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Organizations: Humane Intelligence, Zindi
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