Trustworthy AI
Our trust in technology relies on understanding how it works. It’s important to understand why AI makes the decisions it does. We’re developing tools to make AI more explainable, fair, robust, private, and transparent.
Overview
Artificial intelligence systems have become increasingly prevalent in everyday life and enterprise settings, and they’re now often being used to support human decision-making. These systems have grown increasingly complex and efficient, and AI holds the promise of uncovering valuable insights across a wide range of applications. But broad adoption of AI systems will require humans to trust their output.
When people understand how technology works, and we can assess that it’s safe and reliable, we’re far more inclined to trust it. Many AI systems to date have been black boxes, where data is fed in and results come out. To trust a decision made by an algorithm, we need to know that it is fair, that it’s reliable and can be accounted for, and that it will cause no harm. We need assurances that AI cannot be tampered with and that the system itself is secure. We need to be able to look inside AI systems, to understand the rationale behind the algorithmic outcome, and even ask it questions as to how it came to its decision.
At IBM Research, we’re working on a range of approaches to ensure that AI systems built in the future are fair, robust, explainable, account, and align with the values of the society they’re designed for. We’re ensuring that in the future, AI applications are as fair as they are efficient across their entire lifecycle.
When people understand how technology works, and we can assess that it’s safe and reliable, we’re far more inclined to trust it. Many AI systems to date have been black boxes, where data is fed in and results come out. To trust a decision made by an algorithm, we need to know that it is fair, that it’s reliable and can be accounted for, and that it will cause no harm. We need assurances that AI cannot be tampered with and that the system itself is secure. We need to be able to look inside AI systems, to understand the rationale behind the algorithmic outcome, and even ask it questions as to how it came to its decision.
At IBM Research, we’re working on a range of approaches to ensure that AI systems built in the future are fair, robust, explainable, account, and align with the values of the society they’re designed for. We’re ensuring that in the future, AI applications are as fair as they are efficient across their entire lifecycle.
Our work
A toxic language filter built for speed
NewsKim MartineauTeaching AI models to improve themselves
ResearchPeter HessIBM and RPI researchers demystify in-context learning in large language models
NewsPeter HessIBM reaffirms its commitment to the Rome Call for AI ethics
NewsMike MurphyTiny benchmarks for large language models
NewsKim MartineauIBM’s Granite model is one of the most transparent LLMs in the world
NewsMike Murphy- See more of our work on Trustworthy AI
Topics
- AI TestingWe’re designing tools to help ensure that AI systems are trustworthy, reliable and can optimize business processes.
- Adversarial Robustness and PrivacyWe’re making tools to protect AI and certify its robustness, and helping AI systems adhere to privacy requirements.
- Explainable AIWe’re creating tools to help AI systems explain why they made the decisions they did.
- Fairness, Accountability, TransparencyWe’re developing technologies to increase the end-to-end transparency and fairness of AI systems.
- Trustworthy GenerationWe’re developing theoretical and algorithmic frameworks for generative AI to accelerate future scientific discoveries.
- Uncertainty QuantificationWe’re developing ways for AI to communicate when it's unsure of a decision across the AI application development lifecycle.
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Publications
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- AIES 2024
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- Michail Smyrnakis
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- INFORMS 2024
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- CCS 2024
- Ching-yun Ko
- Pin-Yu Chen
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- COLM 2024
- Michael Feffer
- Ronald Xu
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- COLM 2024
- Yiming Chen
- Niharika DSouza
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- MICCAI 2024
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