Oak Ridge National Laboratory seeks participants for a new Trustworthy AI for Science Essay Contest; finalists and winners will be recognized and invited to present at the Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference (SMC) 2024 September 16-19, 2023 at the Marriott in Downtown Knoxville. This contest urges participants to contemplate guidance and considerations involved in constructing safe, trustworthy, and energy efficient AI systems for scientific purposes. It is brought to you by the organizers of the Smoky Mountain Data Challenge, which seeks to encourage researchers to explore the many different relationships between discovery and data.
To realize such a future, researchers require well-considered frameworks encompassing both scientific rigor and ethics to govern the use of AI for scientific purposes. We hope that interdisciplinary teams will form to deliberate and write about this topic. We encourage submissions about questions of ethics and the use of AI for science and what these AI frameworks should consider and how they might operate. (Teams should allow themselves creative forays: poetry, thought experiments, dimension reduction analysis are all ok!)
We invite teams to submit thought-provoking responses to one of the following challenges in a 2000-word essay. Teams may consist of up to four members, and participation from diverse technical and humanistic viewpoints is strongly encouraged.
This year’s three Essay Challenges are:
To Participate:
Selected solutions to these challenges will be given a DOI.
All participants must obtain an ORNL conference access approval to participate in the conference for this competition. Respond promptly to all ORNL access invitations and emails from the organizers to avoid potential delays
Monday, June 24, 2024 | Registration closes |
Monday, July 8, 2024 | Long Abstracts Due |
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 | Notifications of Acceptance |
Friday, July 26, 2024 | Entry PAS due for Accepted |
Thursday, August 15, 2024 | Final Drafts due of Accepted papers |
Monday, September 16, 2024 | SMC2024 begins |