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NSF Workshop on the Science of Safe AI

NSF Workshop on the Science of Safe AI will be held at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on February 26, 2025 hosted by Penn Engineering’s ASSET Center for Trustworthy AI. This will be an invitation-only, one-day workshop focused on exploring the future of safe AI. The workshop will also serve as the PI Meeting for the NSF program on Safe Learning-Enabled Systems. The workshop will discuss a variety of themes related to the AI safety studied in AI/ML community to broaden the scope of SLES. Further details about the workshop will be shared soon.

The registration is now closed. If you have questions please email Maggie Weglos at mweglos@seas.upenn.edu. 

  • Date

    Wednesday, February 26th

  • Time

    8:00 am - 6:00 pm

  • Location

    Singh Center for Nanotechnology, Glandt Forum Room

Agenda

8:00 – 8:30 am: Coffee and light breakfast

8:30 – 8:35 am: Welcome by Rajeev Alur, Workshop Organizer

8:35 – 8:45 am: Welcome by NSF

8:45 – 9:10 am: Moshe Vardi (Rice University) 

9:10 – 9:35 am: Olga Russakovsky (Princeton University)

9:35 – 10:00 am: Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 – 10:30 am: Coffee Break 

10:30 am – 12:00 pm: Lightning talks by SLES PIs

12:00 – 1:30 pm: Lunch and poster session 

All participants, particularly those who did not have lightning talks, are welcome to have a poster.

*We will be providing the easels, poster boards, and clips – all you need to bring is your poster!

1:30 – 3:00 pm: Four Parallel Working Group Sessions

Each group will have about 15-20 folks assigned randomly. Each group will be given a set of (same) questions, which will be distributed to participants in advance. 

3:00 – 4:00 pm: Coffee, poster presentations continue 

Working group leads are tasked to put together a summary of their group discussion.

4:00 – 5:00 pm: 10 minute report from each of the working group leads, Q+A, and concluding remarks

5:00 – 6:00 pm: Light reception

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Organizer – Rajeev Alur

NSF Program Managers – Anindya Banerjee, David Corman, Pavithra Prabhakar, Jie Yang

Local Organization Point of Contact – Maggie Weglos