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Duke University professor Cynthia Rudin won the $1M AAAI Squirrel AI Award for her work on socially responsible AI systems
Duke University professor Cynthia Rudin won the $1M AAAI Squirrel AI Award for her work on socially responsible AI systems. Rudin’s first applied project used machine learning to predict which manholes in NYC were most likely to explode due to bad circuitry. She also helped build a model that links commonalities between crimes to determine if they're committed by the same person, which became the basis for the NYPD's Patternizr algorithm.
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- The award, given by the nonprofit Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, recognizes achievements in AI that benefit humanity. Online education company Squirrel AI provides the $1M prize.
- Rudin, a professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and statistical science at Duke, also helped design a system to predict which critically ill hospital patients are most likely to have a seizure following a stroke or other brain injury.
- She is a noted critic of so-called "black box" AI models for use in high-stakes areas. Instead, she advocates for interpretable models in areas where accuracy and lack of bias are critical.
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