Eleanor 'Nell' Watson

Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson CITP FBCS FICS FIAP FIKE FRSA FRSS FCMI FLS is a Machine Intelligence engineer who helped to pioneer Deep Machine Vision at her company QuantaCorp, which enables fast and accurate body measurement from just two photos. In sharing her knowledge as AI Faculty at Singularity University and author of Machine Intelligence courseware for O’Reilly Media, she realized the importance of protecting human rights and putting ethics, safety, and the values of human spirit into A.I. Nell serves as Chair and Vice-Chair respectively of the IEEE’s ECPAIS Transparency Experts Focus Group and P7001 Transparency of Autonomous Systems committee on AI Ethics & Safety, which is working to engineer credit score-like mechanisms to safeguard algorithmic trust. She also chairs EthicsNet.org, a community teaching pro-social behaviors to machines; CulturalPeace.org, crafting Geneva Conventions-style rules for cultural conflict; and Pacha.org, connecting a network of service providers to help enable the automated accounting of externalities such as pollution. Nell serves as Senior Scientific Advisor to The Future Society at Harvard, and holds Fellowships from the British Computing Society and Royal Statistical Society, among others. Her public speaking has inspired audiences to work towards a brighter future at venues such as The World Bank, The United Nations General Assembly, and The Royal Society.

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Turn Ethical Frameworks into Actionable Steps (Coursera)

Mar 25th 2024
Turn Ethical Frameworks into Actionable Steps (Coursera)
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Students will become familiar with frameworks and the common ethical principles they are based upon and how they can be applied across a variety of ethically driven dilemmas. You will learn applicable regulations and best practices established across global organizations and governments and how to navigate the integration of [...]
Mar 25th 2024
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Promote the Ethical Use of Data-Driven Technologies (Coursera)

tudents will learn what emerging technologies are and how they can be used to create data driven solutions. You will learn types of bias and common ethical theories and how they can be applied to emerging technology, and examine legal and ethical privacy concepts as they relate to technologies [...]

Detect and Mitigate Ethical Risks (Coursera)

Mar 25th 2024
Detect and Mitigate Ethical Risks (Coursera)
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Data-driven technologies like AI, when designed with ethics in mind, benefit both the business and society at large. But it’s not enough to say you will “be ethical” and expect it to happen. We need tools and techniques to help us assess gaps in our ethical behaviors and to [...]