IFIP Working Group 8.3 on Decision Support is staging a virtual seminar on Friday 7th May on the topic: AI for Decision Intelligence – Using AI/ML to Address Real Decision Problems.
Hosted by Cork Business School, the two-hour event features a presentation by Dr Arkady Zaslavsky, a Professor of Distributed Systems & Security at Deakin University, […]
IFIP Working Group 10.4 (Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance) staged a virtual workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) from 29 Jan-1 Feb 2021, attracting over 60 attendees from 18 time zones spanning North America, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Taiwan.
The vision of the IVDS project is to realise highly dependable and secure operation […]
New Publications Focus on AI and Blockchain
The Royal Dutch Association of Computer and Information Professionals (Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging van Informatieprofessionals, KNVI) has made two unique books available for free under Creative Commons licence.
Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Natascha van Duuren & Victor de Pous
While Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, expects increasingly intelligent computers to overtake humans […]
Australia’s Human Rights Commission has released a report highlighting the potential dangers of using artificial intelligence to make decisions around human rights, saying in-built biases could lead to unlawful and discriminatory outcomes.
The Commission’s new report, Addressing the problem of algorithmic bias, examines the interaction between human rights – specific equality and non-discrimination – and artificial intelligence […]
1st Act of AI Festival Montpellier
Due to COVID modifications, the initial AI Forum France could not take its planned form (AI Austria Forum). Instead, IFIP TC12 decided to have several events, beginning with a Round Table on September 23rd 2020.
The event, which attracted over 100 people and was conducted under COVID-safe conditions, was hosted […]
New Research Project on the Traceability of Algorithmic Decision Systems
The increasing use of algorithmic decision systems (ADM) is bringing about far-reaching changes for the world of work, particularly in personnel management, where decisions on selection and management are increasingly prepared by ADM systems.
Employees also interact increasingly with “intelligent” systems in their direct working environment. In […]
BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has warned that a lack of diversity in teams developing artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to in-built bias and discrimination in its decisions.
The comments are featured in a new report by the Committee for Standards in Public Life (CSPL), which examines whether the existing frameworks and regulations around machine learning […]
The Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) has joined with the Fraunhofer Group for IUK Technology to honour 10 influential figures in German AI history at a special reception in Berlin.
The reception entitled, “Artificial Intelligence in Germany – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”, came out of the GI’s KI50 project which brought together a jury of 18 transdisciplinary […]
Croatia has taken over the Presidency of the European Council since 1 January 2020 for a six month term.
The Croatian-led priorities document includes digital aspects under each of the four strategic pillars, with ethics in AI highlighted.
One goal of the strategy is to curate discussions on the legal and ethical implications of artificial intelligence as […]
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