Faculty Fellow Yvonne Stevens has been elected chairperson of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)’s Risk, Policy and Law Specialty Group. LSI is excited to have one of our own leading the way on law and policy related to risk.
Regarding her selection to chair the specialty group, Stevens said:
I am honored to have been selected Chair of the SRA Risk, Policy and Law Specialty Group (RPLSG) and look forward to serving its members and fellow officers through the 2019 term. I have created a list of goals for the RPLSG, which serve as a foundation for my appointment. My aim is to promote the vision of the most recent past Chairs, Dominic Balog-Way and Kirk Hartley. I thank them for their adept stewardship of the RPLSG and for setting an exceptional leadership example.
Both Stevens and Faculty Director Gary Marchant presented as part of a symposium on decision-making algorithms at SRA’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Stevens gave a presentation on Algorithms: Risk, Trust & Acceptance, which discusses myth of neutral or objective algorithms and the need to establish human trust. Marchant presented on Risks and Liabilities of Autonomous Systems, which discussed when and how civil and criminal liability may be imposed where harms arise from autonomous systems.