Our Vision & Mission
We want to build a community where everyone is welcome to explore the ethics of AI. We want to facilitate conversations where ethics of AI carries substance and has practical real world meaning. We want to build a space where our participants can be empowered with tools to go out and make meaningful contributions in shaping the future of AI.
How It All Began
When an engineer meets a social scientist, what does a conversation on AI look like?
That’s how we started. We’re two friends (one engineer, one social scientist) who met at our regular café for a chat. Our conversation steered towards one of the topics we felt intrigued about – AI, but looking at it from a more social, economic and ethical perspective. We enjoyed the conversation so much we wanted to bring more people from different backgrounds together for a deep dive.
Core Team Behind AI Townsquare
Lusiné Mehrabyan
Lusine loves to explore how social sciences can be better utilised in the tech space. With a background in economics, behavioural sciences and policy from the London School of Economics, she brings the social sciences perspective to AI Townsquare.
Maribeth Rauh
Maribeth is an engineer by training, currently working on machine learning applications at DeepMind. What excites her most is the intersection of the technical and the social – how can we anticipate and mitigate technologies’ harms while reaping the benefits?
AI Townsquare: Ethics Series 