Funding Opportunities

Alexa Fairness in AI

New Opportunity? Yes

External/Internal: External

Funding Organization: Amazon

Deadline: 01-21-2022

Letter of Intent Required: Yes

Description:

Alexa AI-Natural Understanding’s (NU) mission is to build and enable engaging, world-class conversational AI capabilities that are broadly accessible. Under this call for proposals, we are seeking to fund research projects on the following topics:

  • Transparency, explainability, and accountability in AI systems
  • Theories of computational/algorithm fairness and factors that affect algorithmic trustworthiness
  • Detecting and ameliorating adverse biases in data and algorithms, and fairness-aware design of algorithms
  • Metrics and methods for designing, piloting, and evaluating systems that mitigate against adverse biases and ensure fairness, including the use of human-machine collaboration and decision support.

Note: if you plan to apply for this funding opportunity, you must notify Beth Colledge at bac39@psu.edu for application and funding notification and upload a copy of your proposal using the proposal template in InfoReady.

 

Award Amount: $80,000

Link to RFP: https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=httpspsu.us14.list-manage.comtrackclickubfea23f769d97b6ff7af5ddd0ide300bd979cee4686e587a&data=0401pnn102psu.educc8b6b8235e6419bb6de08d9b67ddf8e7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e00637741473996439029UnknownTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn03000&sdata=3w1H5IOkZeZXRzxKOLbfVKatzhM5fTOhmoTRAUX0M&reserved=0