<div dir="ltr">quite relevant panel right in our backyard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">John Schermerhorn</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:John.Schermerhorn@ecstech.com">John.Schermerhorn@ecstech.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 9:36 AM<br>Subject: FW: [EXTERNAL] Join Us for the CDAO RAI COI September 26 Meeting<br>To: awd <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>>, Kimberly Elenberg <<a href="mailto:Kimberly.Elenberg@ecstech.com">Kimberly.Elenberg@ecstech.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg5532542707127387968">







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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Are you going to listen in? I just got this note a day ago. If it wasn’t on your radar, I wanted to share.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The RAI toolkit has been a significant effort within CDAO, but I really haven’t heard of any successful adoption/implementations in industry.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If I had to guess – this may be that push.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Here’s the RAI toolkit website: and blog post:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://rai.tradewindai.com/" target="_blank">https://rai.tradewindai.com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">John Schermerhorn<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">443-235-2773<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 24, 2024 11:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Schermerhorn <a href="mailto:John.Schermerhorn@ecstech.com" target="_blank">John.Schermerhorn@ecstech.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Join Us for the CDAO RAI COI September 26 Meeting<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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 At the same time, there remain many open questions around what red-teaming practically entails in the context of AI systems and the role it can play to support the development of human-centered, robust, and secure AI systems. In this panel discussion, we will
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