Responsible AI in Practice: A Conversation with Lisa Thee and Shubham Atreja

Responsible AI in Practice: A Conversation with Lisa Thee and Shubham Atreja, PhD

As AI moves from experimentation into everyday decisions, the hardest questions are no longer only technical. Who is accountable when an AI system gets it wrong? How do we balance privacy, safety, and innovation? And what does it take to turn responsible AI principles into practice?

Join the USF Data Institute for a conversation between Lisa Thee, AI executive, founder, and Head of the International AI Safety Commission at the Global Council for Responsible AI, and Shubham Atreja, Assistant Professor of Data Science and AI at the University of San Francisco. Drawing on Lisa's experience building and governing AI across industry, government, and nonprofit settings, and Shubham's research on how computing technologies shape human behavior and society, they will explore where responsible AI is working, where it falls short, and what leaders, practitioners, and students can do about it.
The conversation will be followed by audience Q&A.

Lisa Thee
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Boardwalk Health; Head of the International AI Safety Commission, Global Council for Responsible AI

Lisa Thee is an AI executive, founder, and board director with more than 25 years of experience across startups, Fortune 500 companies, government, and academia. She leads the International AI Safety Commission, which works on global coordination for advanced AI safety and governance, and teaches Responsible AI at the University of Michigan. At Intel, she led a partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that used AI and analytics to cut the national response time to child exploitation reports from 30 days to 24 hours. She is an exited founder, serves on the boards of several AI startups, and is a TEDx speaker and author of Go! Reboot Your Career in 90 Days. She holds a degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Shubham Atreja, PhD
Assistant Professor of Data Science and AI, University of San Francisco

Shubham Atreja is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and AI at the University of San Francisco. He brings deep experience designing computing technologies in both industry and academia to understand how these systems shape human behavior and society. He holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Michigan.

About the Center for AI & Data Ethics
The Center for AI & Data Ethics at the USF Data Institute addresses the responsible use of data and AI through education, research, public policy, and community engagement. Building on the Data Institute's work in applied data ethics since 2019, the Center brings together faculty, students, practitioners, and policymakers to examine how algorithmic systems affect people and to develop practical approaches for building technology that serves the public good.

About the USF Data Science & AI Speaker Series
This conversation is part of the USF Data Science & AI Speaker Series, which brings leading voices from industry, academia, government, and civil society to USF's downtown campus at 101 Howard Street. The series features talks across the full range of data science and AI, including a focus on ethics and responsible AI presented in partnership with the Center for AI & Data Ethics. Talks are free and open to the community, and attendees are welcome to bring lunch for these midday conversations.