Francesca Rossi

IBM Fellow & IBM AI Ethics Global Leader

Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects. She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on AI, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit, and the Global Partnership on AI. She is the president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.

Participant In These Roundtable Discussions

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Oct 22nd
2016
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Embodied AI

This roundtable examines the concept of embodied cognition and its implications for artificial intelligence systems that integrate perception, action, and interaction with the physical world. It considers how technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing, when combined with sensory and motor capabilities, can move beyond abstract computation to engage with real-world environments, augment human abilities, and support complex tasks across domains such as healthcare, industry, and human–machine collaboration.
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Mar 10th
2018
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Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament

This roundtable brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines to examine transhumanism—the prospect of using technologies such as genomics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, robotics, and prosthetics to enhance and transform human bodies and minds. It explores visions of radical life extension, digital forms of consciousness, and the idea of a technological “Singularity,” while also considering the broader scientific, philosophical, and cultural implications of moving beyond current conceptions of the human.
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Oct 5th
2019
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Mechanization of Math

This roundtable explores the nature of mathematical proof and the growing role of computers and AI in verifying and potentially producing proofs. It considers whether mathematics is a human practice with intrinsic value or a process that can ultimately be automated and entrusted to machines.
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Oct 15th
2022
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Coding and the New Human Phenotype

This conference explores the concept of life, knowledge, and experience through the lens of “code,” examining how meaning is encoded, transmitted, and transformed across biological, digital, and cultural systems. Through five roundtables, it investigates how we reconstruct the past, navigate authenticity in a digital world, interpret fiction and ideas, engage with AI-generated language, and consider the possibility that reality itself may be fundamentally computational—together asking what is gained, and what may be lost, as code increasingly mediates our understanding of the world.