Seminar from Cristian Canton Ferrer

On Tuesday, January 28, 2025, Cristian Canton Ferrer (Head of Responsible AI at Meta) will give an invited talk on “Responsibility in the times of Generative AI”.

The event will take place at the Auditorium of the Modena Technopole and will start at 9:30 AM.

Abstract

As Generative AI technologies become more prevalent and used across more and more platforms/systems/applications, it is important to revisit how are we applying principles of responsibility to them. Fairness, Transparency, Safety, Robustness and other dimensions must be considered when developing GenAI algorithms, as well as keeping an ethics perspective. In this seminar, we will revisit the standard concepts on responsible AI and see how these get applied to GenAI. This presentation will include a walkthrough through of the Llama3 model and the efforts around it more responsible.

Biography

Head of the Responsible AI organization at Meta, leading the company efforts around fairness, robustness and safety, governance and accountability, and transparency, specially in the field of Generative AI. Previously at Meta, he led the computer vision team within the Community Integrity division focused on harmful content, misinformation and manipulated media. From 2012-16, he was at Microsoft Research in Redmond (USA) and Cambridge (UK); from 2009-2012, he was at Vicon (Oxford), bringing CV to produce visual effects for the cinema industry. He got his PhD and MS from Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona) and his MS Thesis from EPFL (Switzerland) on computer vision topics.