{"id":3283141,"date":"2026-08-19T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3283141"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:23:54","slug":"interview-dr-mahtab-sarvmaili-unb-responsible-ai-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-dr-mahtab-sarvmaili-unb-responsible-ai-lab","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Dr. Mahtab Sarvmaili (UNB Responsible AI Lab)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"3283142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-dr-mahtab-sarvmaili-unb-responsible-ai-lab\/attachment\/lunchbox2026drmahtabsarvmialirai\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI-800x800.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3283142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2026DrMahtabSarvmialiRAI.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>AI went from a scifi concept and limited research projects to daily life incredibly fast, but to we have to take a moment to understand it better?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guest today is <strong>Dr. Mahtab Sarvmaili<\/strong>, the director of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/rai.cs.unb.ca\/\"><strong>Responsible AI Lab <\/strong>at UNB<\/a>. She joins me to talk about the goals and mandate for this new lab, including some of the varied issues that fall under the its purview: everything from ethic uses, explainable generated output, and subtle changes to embedded training data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2249\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2249','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3283141-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI went from a scifi concept and limited research projects to daily life incredibly fast, but to we have to take a moment to understand it better? My guest today is Dr. Mahtab Sarvmaili, the director of the new Responsible AI Lab at UNB. She joins me to talk about the goals and mandate for<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-dr-mahtab-sarvmaili-unb-responsible-ai-lab\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2251\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2251','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3283141-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2026-08-18%20Mahtab%20Sarvmaili%20-%20UNB%20Responsible%20AI%20Lab.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2065,3358,491,815,2073,13876,543,640],"class_list":["post-3283141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-interview","tag-lab","tag-research","tag-responsible-ai","tag-science","tag-unb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283144,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283141\/revisions\/3283144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}