Wiebke Hutiri
Profile
Wiebke is a research scientist working on ethical and trustworthy AI. She holds a Ph.D. (cum laude) from the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Prior to joining Sony AI, Wiebke completed her Masters in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and worked as a data scientist and engineer in the energy sector. Wiebke received a Mozilla Technology Fund Award to support her work on fairness in voice technologies. She is a fellow of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researchers, the Data Science for Social Good Initiative and the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute.
Publications
Not My Voice! A Taxonomy of Ethical and Safety Harms of Speech Generators
FACCT, 2024 | Wiebke Hutiri*, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos*, Alice Xiang
The rapid and wide-scale adoption of AI to generate human speech poses a range of significant ethical and safety risks to society that need to be addressed. For example, a growing number of speech generation incidents are associated with swatting attacks in the United States...