Jeannette Wing, Columbia’s executive vice president for research, has been named as interim co-director of the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research, a first-of-its-kind statewide effort to advance artificial intelligence security and safety.
Wing will lead the new center alongside Greg Morrisett, dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced their appointments on Nov. 10.
The center will draw on the AI safety and security expertise of more than 80 researchers at colleges and research institutions across New York. They will work from their home institutions and use computing resources provided by Empire AI, the state’s public-private research initiative that gives member institutions access to shared supercomputing resources for AI research.
“As AI systems become more autonomous, we need to develop better scientific approaches to ensure they do no harm. We need to anticipate brand new kinds of failures, vulnerabilities, and attacks, and then prevent, detect, and recover from them,” said Wing.
