Call for Submissions: AI & Big Data for Emergency Response and Preparedness
Please consider submitting your work to the Special Issue on “AI & Big Data Analytics for Emergency Preparedness and Responses Systems”. The deadline for submission is 15 December 2022. For more information, please refer to the call for papers here.
Exciting AI News: Predicting the structures of all proteins known by science
Melissa Heikkilä writes in MIT Technology Review about this incredible achievement by DeepMind’s AlphaFold, which has successfully predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science. Read the full article here.
Prof. Hodac won a prestigious grant from Confiance.AI
We would like to congratulate Prof. Marion Hodac, General Secretary of the AI Transparency Institute, for having won a prestigious from Confiance.AI, with the institute. The institute is also affiliated to the project on AI Trustworthiness.
AITI @ The Hague Conference on Responsible AI
The AI Transparency Institute participated in the International Conference on Responsible AI at The Hague, Netherlands in May 2022. Please read the full report here.
A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of
The European Union is planning new legislation aimed at curbing the worst harms associated with artificial intelligence. By Melissa Heikkiläarchive It’s a Wild West out there for artificial intelligence. AI applications are increasingly used to make important decisions about humans’ lives with little to no oversight or accountability. This can have devastating consequences: wrongful arrests, incorrect grades for students, […]
Global Trends Analysis: Aligning AI Governance Globally – Lessons from Current Practice
Global Trends Analysis: Aligning AI Governance Globally – Lessons from Current Practice By Amandeep Singh Gill Considering data and artificial intelligence (AI) as global commons could be crucial in ensuring that these key technologies of the 21st century benefit all of humanity. However, fragmented efforts of AI development and governance across the world risk diluting the effectiveness […]
AI and Ethics: New Special Issue is Out!
The new Special Issue on Governance and AI: Challenges for a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem has been published in Springer’s AI and Ethics journal. The special issue was jointly guest edited by Eva Thélisson, Kshitij Sharma, and Himanshu Verma. The preface of the Special Issue was written by Jan Kleijssen, Director of Information Society and Action […]
ISO/IEC TR 24027:2021
Information technology — Artificial intelligence (AI) — Bias in AI systems and AI aided decision making By ISO This document addresses bias in relation to AI systems, especially with regards to AI-aided decision-making. Measurement techniques and methods for assessing bias are described, with the aim to address and treat bias-related vulnerabilities. All AI system lifecycle […]
European Positioning on Genome Editing
Eva Thelisson WHO’s Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing has issued new recommendations on human genome editing for the advancement of public health. Following are some links which elaborate WHO’s position, recommendations and governance framework. WHO Human Genome Editing (World Health Organization), July 2021 Recommendations for […]
Should online targeted advertising be banned on the premise that it violates human dignity?
Luciano Floridi, Brett Frischmann and Shoshana Zuboff Scholars from various disciplines claim that online targeted advertising – the primary source of wealth accumulation for companies such as Google and Facebook – is based on an economic logic that instrumentalizes human beings as the means to someone else’s financial (and political) gain. It uses the users, […]