Visiting Researcher talk: Prof Carsten Maple 27 MAY 25

Talk Title: AI Trustworthiness, Governance, Assessment, Assurance: what does it all mean and how do we achieve it?Speaker: Prof Carsten Maple

About the Speaker: Prof Carsten Maple is a Director of the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering at the University of Warwick. He also serves as Director for Research Innovation at EDGE-AI and is a Fellow and Professor at the Alan Turing Institute. A principal investigator on major projects, including a $9 million initiative on trustworthy digital infrastructure, he leads security and privacy efforts in the Responsible AI in Finance project. Prof Maple has published over 450 papers, advised government and industry, and serves on Royal Society working groups on Privacy Enhancing Technologies and online safety.

Description: The terms trusted, trustworthy, and responsible Artificial Intelligence were often used without much attention to detail, and frequently interchangeably. In this talk, Prof Carsten considered, within a particular context, that: trust was an attitude one had about a system; trustworthiness was a property that a system possessed; and responsibility related to how a system was deployed. He then explored the facets, or elements, of trustworthiness—including fairness, privacy, security, resilience, among others. Prof Carsten presented a framework for AI Governance, introducing a mechanism for presenting and documenting claims about the trustworthiness of an AI system. He concluded the session by discussing the role AI Insurance could play in generating AI Assurance.