Selected talks & conferences


I will be attending the Conference on Integrating Normative Considerations into Inequality Measurement at the University of Chicago, December 11-12, 2025.

I will be speaking at HCAI'25: The University of Michigan Symposium on Human-Centered AI in sunny Ann Arbor, MI on October 29-30, 2025. Invited talk: “The Hidden Governance of AI”

Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC),  May 2025

Governing Data symposium at Yale Law School, March 2025. Invited speaker.

NeurIPS EvalEval Workshop on Evaluating Evaluations: Examining Best Practices for Measuring Broader Impacts of Generative AI, December 2024. Invited speaker.

June & July 2024: I am on the planning committee for the Human and Organizational Factors in AI Risk Management: Workshop series hosted by the National Academies

︎︎︎ Workshop on Human and Organizational Factors in AI Risk Management: Evaluation, Testing, and Oversight. Organizing Committee The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, June 20, 2024 [ Event recording ]

︎︎︎Workshop on Human and Organizational Factors in AI Risk Management: Designing Paths Forward in AI Risk Management. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, July 2, 2024, Washington D.C. 

Annual Ethical AI Symposium, Michigan Institute for Data Science, University of Michigan, April 2024. Keynote speaker

Carnegie Mellon, Human-Computer Interaction Institute seminar, March 2024 

Emory, Quantitative Theory and Methods seminar, October 2023

University of Maryland, Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence seminar, October 2023

Co-organizer: “Operationalizing the Measure Function of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework,” co-organized with the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI); the NIST-National Science Foundation (NSF) Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS); and the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). October 2023 [writeup]

Organizer: “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI” Workshop, hosted by the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI). July 2023 [writeup]

University of Washington Center for an Informed Public. May 2023

Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics seminar. October 2022

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Organizational Behavior seminar. October 2022


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Abigail Z. Jacobs she/her/hers
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