Q and A with Maura Grossman: The ethics of artificial intelligence

Can we reach consensus on how AI will be used, regulated and interwoven into society?. Maura R. Grossman, JD, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and an affiliate faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is also Principal at Maura Grossman Law, an eDiscovery law and consulting firm in Buffalo, New York. Maura is best known for her work on technology-assisted review , a supervised machine learning approach that she and her colleague, Computer Science Professor Gordon V. Cormack, developed to expedite review of documents in  high-stakes litigation . She teaches Artificial Intelligence: Law, Ethics, and Policy, a course for graduate computer science students at Waterloo and upper-class law students at Osgoode, as well as the ethics workshop required of all students in the master's programs in artificial intelligence and data science at Waterloo. What is AI?. Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term first used at a conference in Dartmouth in 1956 . AI means computers doing intelligent things - performing cognitive tasks such as thinking, reasoning, and predicting - that were once thought to be the sole province of humans.