On March 3-4 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will convene “Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness: Current Contexts, Potential Paths,” a public workshop sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help think through this interrelated set of challenges. This workshop will work to produce initial ideas for activities and collaborations by academia, industry, and the public sector to improve the assessment of trustworthiness of AI systems, and recommendations for NIST and similar public bodies. The notion of AI trustworthiness, comprising a wide array of attributes such as robustness, accuracy, fairness, explainability, and privacy, presents a complicated set […]

Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Vice Chair Daniel Lopresti.  AI for Good Global Summit hosted a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour today and featured Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss (Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University) as well as Alice Eckstein (Programme Manager, Modern Slavery Programme at United Nations University – Centre for Policy Research), Doreen Boyd (Professor of Earth Observation, Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Nottingham), James Goulding (Deputy Director N/LAB, Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Nottingham) and Anjali Mazumder (Thematic Lead on AI, Justice […]

AI for Good Global Summit is hosting a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour on Wednesday, February 24th from 10AMb – 11:30AM EST. This panel will bring together Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Execuitve Council member Nadya Bliss (ASU) along with other members of the CCC/Code 8.7 visioning workshop on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery including Alice Eckstein (UNU-CPR), James Goulding (University Of Nottingham), and Anjali Mazumder (The Alan Turing Institute). The goal of the webinar is to discuss promising research avenues within AI and Computational Science as well as some specific cases in which application of these technologies are supporting […]

Are you a Ph.D. candidate or postdoctoral researcher in the field of artificial intelligence looking for a new opportunity? Do you want to connect with leading research groups and research institutions from Germany? The DAAD’s Postdoctoral Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence is your opportunity to get a unique insight into the German AI research landscape. During the one-week virtual tour, you will connect directly to leading researchers. Additionally, you will also be supported for customized on-site-visits as soon as COVID-19 restrictions allow to do so. The virtual tour with a focus on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence will take place from 26 to 30 April 2021. You should have: a […]

The AI for Good Global Summit, “an all-year digital event, featuring weekly programming across multiple formats, platforms and time-zones,” will hold the AI to Prevent Modern Slavery and Child Trafficking webinar on Wednesday, February 24th 4pm – 5:30 pm CET (10am – 11:30 am EST).  From the webinar webpage: “With Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, all UN Member States committed to take “immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.” Understanding what […]

Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the  Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University was recently interviewed on the Medscape podcast, Medicine and the Machine in an episode titled ‘Can AI Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight?. The podcast, led by Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese from Stanford, explores critical questions and discussions on artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on modern medicine. While it was acknowledged that AI has made great strides in the past decade on accomplishing narrow tasks, the episode highlights that the technology still lacks the ability to work autonomously in the field of medicine. Making this a possibility would require […]