Borhane Blili-Hamelin
Borhane Blili-Hamelin is an ethicist who brings a philosophical and qualitative lens to technical areas like machine learning evaluation, auditing, risk assessment, red teaming, and vulnerability management. He is a Data & Society affiliate. As an officer at ARVA, the nonprofit home of the AI Vulnerability Database (AVID), he works on standards for discovering and disclosing harmful flaws in AI systems. He coordinated AVID’s work as a community partner organization for the White House-supported DEF CON 31 Generative Red Team event, and works on algorithmic audits as a senior consultant at BABL. A former project lead for the Mozilla Festival’s Civil Society Actors for Trustworthy AI working group and a former MozFest wrangler, Blili-Hamelin earned his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University.
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Essays and Scholarship
Experimental Publics: Democracy and the Role of Publics in GenAI Evaluation
Public involvement both challenges and reshapes the governance of generative AI systems.
By Jacob Metcalf , Ranjit Singh & Borhane Blili-Hamelin