Summit

Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society Returns to School of IC

Nathan Deen
College of ComputingSchool of Interactive Computing

The Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society returns to Georgia Tech next week and is again being hosted by the School of Interactive Computing.

The 2025 Summit will be held at the Georgia Tech Academy of Medicine in Midtown Atlanta, Oct. 27 – 29. Speaker and panel sessions are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday. The event includes 20 speakers who will discuss the future and evolution of computing in healthcare, sustainability, human-centered AI, and policy.

Rumman Chowdhury will be the keynote speaker for this year’s event. She will give her talk at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.

Chowdhury is a data and social scientist and the co-founder and CEO of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit that advances community-driven AI. She is the U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence and a Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Chowdhury has spoken at the World Economic Forum, the UN AI for Good Summit, and the European Parliament, and has given testimony before the U.S. Senate on AI.

Chowdhury is the former director of the ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team at Twitter (now X). Time listed her on its first Time 100 AI list in 2023, and she was recognized by Forbes in 2018 in an article titled Five People Building Our AI Future.

The remainder of the summit will feature six sessions, including four on Tuesday and two on Wednesday, with expert presentations and panel discussions.

Tuesday sessions:

Education in the Era of AI

Speakers: Ashok Goel (School of IC), Michael Horn (Northwestern), Tamara Tate (University of California-Irvine)

Creativity and Computation

Speakers: Brian Magerko (Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication), Irfan Essa (School of IC and Google), Anna Huang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Health

Speakers: Jennifer Kim (School of IC), Firaz Peer (Kentucky), Naveena Karusala (School of IC)

Humanities and AI 

Speakers: Carl DiSalvo (School of IC), Lauren Klein (Emory) and Andre Brock (School of Literature, Media, and Communication), Elissa Redmilles (Georgetown)

Wednesday sessions:

Agents

Speakers: Tucker Balch (Emory), Nick Diakopoulos (Northwestern), Dylan Hadfield-Menell (MIT)

Sustainable World

Speakers: Robert Soden (Toronto), Cindy Lin (School of IC), and Allen Hyde (Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology)

Like last year, the event begins Monday with a doctoral consortium that invites selected Ph.D. students for a day of one-on-one and small-group mentorship from Georgia Tech and MIT faculty.

Consortium participants will give lightning talks about their research and present at a Tuesday poster session during the main event.

The Ph.D. students from Georgia Tech selected for the 2025 consortium are:

  • Shi Ding, School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC)
  • Kartik Sharma, School of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Yasmine Belghithm, School of IC
  • Lingqin Wang, School of IC
  • Xingyu Li, LMC
  • Charles Nimo, School of IC
  • Ama Khullar, School of IC
  • Amal Alabdulkarim, School of IC
  • Kayla Evans, School of IC