Professor Sandra Wachter
Transform AI governance with Sandra Wachter, speaker on algorithmic ethics and technology regulation. Sandra helps organisations implement explainable AI and combat algorithmic bias, recognized by major tech companies including Google, IBM, and Microsoft for her award-winning research.
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Professor Wachter's academic contributions are widely recognised. She has been published in journals such as Nature and Science and is frequently cited in major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC. Her insights have been featured in documentaries and reports examining the broader impact of AI on society.
Professor Wachter has held positions at Harvard Law School and the Alan Turing Institute and is affiliated with the Oxford Martin School and the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. Her work has earned several prestigious awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award and the Privacy Law Scholar Award.
Professor Wachter’s work has also made significant real-world impact. Her work on opening the ‘AI Blackbox’ to increase accountability, transparency, and explainability has been widely successful. Her explainability tool – Counterfactual Explanations – has been implemented by major tech companies such as Google, Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Arthur, and Vodafone.
Professor Wachter has also contributed to major developments in combating bias. She developed a bias test (‘Conditional Demographic Disparity’ or CDD), which Amazon and IBM have since implemented in their cloud services. In 2024, CDD was used to uncover systemic bias in education in the Netherlands. The Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science apologised for indirect discrimination and is now working to improve the algorithmic system in question as a result.
Professor Wachter's paper The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning also revealed the harmful impact of enforcing many ‘group fairness’ measures in practice by making everyone worse off, rather than helping disadvantaged groups. The NHS and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are now using these findings internally to revise practices for licensing medical devices to ensure equal and safe access to medical care.
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In this talk, Professor Sandra Wachter will explore the legal and ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence. She will discuss key issues such as data privacy, accountability, and bias in AI systems. Attendees will gain insights into the regulatory landscape and the implications for businesses and society. By the end of the session, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to navigate the complexities of AI in a responsible manner.
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