Can we trust a machine? Risks of AI applications in the healthcare sector and how to deal with them

Friday, 9 May 9:20

About Dr. Gertraud Leimüller, MPA (Harvard)

Gertraud Leimüller is co-founder of leiwand.ai, a deep-tech startup for algorithmic fairness that uses new technologies to verify the trustworthiness of AI applications. Gertraud is the initiator and co-leader of the Austrian Labs for AI Trust (ALAIT), where methods for the evaluation of AI technologies are developed and applied on behalf of the Austrian government and disseminated in dialog formats. She is serving as a co-lead of the research project Algorithmic Bias Risk Radar (ABRRA), in which an AI Bias Incident Database is set up and fairness risks are identified via pattern recognition. She is the social science leader and co-initiator of the research consortium fAIr by design, in which companies and universities have jointly developed a novel process model and a toolbox for non-discriminatory and fair AI. Gertraud Leimüller is an experienced expert in open innovation and co-creation and a graduate of the University of Vienna (Dr.rer.nat.) and Harvard University (MPA), studied at MIT and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Paracelsus Medical Private University.