Alexa Fairness in AI call for proposals - Spring 2022

Alexa AI-Natural Understanding’s (NU) mission is to build and enable engaging, world-class conversational AI capabilities that are broadly accessible. Under this call for proposals, Amazon is seeking to fund research projects on the following topics:

• Transparency, explainability, and accountability in AI systems
• Theories of computational/algorithm fairness and factors that affect algorithmic trustworthiness
• Detecting and ameliorating adverse biases in data and algorithms, and fairness-aware design of algorithms
• Metrics and methods for designing, piloting, and evaluating systems that mitigate against adverse biases and ensure fairness, including the use of human-machine collaboration and decision support
• Explaining the root cause of biases in model output and providing actionable insights to correct them

Funding: $80,000

Duration: 1 year

Research Authority due date: 30.6.22 8.7.22