Invitation
On 18 June 2024, from 13.00-17.oo, the AI Policy Lab will officially open!
You are welcome to join us at MIT-huset A400 (see location in mazemap) for an afternoon filled with presentations, informal conversations and the opportunity to explore the premises.
The program is as follows:
13.00 – Opening by Virginia Dignum, director of the AI Policy Lab
13.15 – Bertram Malle, Brown University: Trust in — and Trustworthiness of — Artificial Agents
Abstract:
If artificial agents should deserve human trust, they must be trust-worthy. But what makes a system worthy of trust? I will introduce a model of human trust in other agents (whether persons, institutions, or machines) that specifies five dimensions of trustworthiness: competence, reliability, integrity, transparency, and benevolence. I will show that ordinary people think of trust as expectations that the other agent has those attributes. I will then explore how an artificial agent might meet those expectations.
14.00 – Ericka Johnson and Saghi Hajisharif, Linköping University: Bias and representation in synthetic data
Abstract:
Bias is an issue in the real world and for the AIs learning from real world data. But if we know a dataset is biased, one could hoped that making a curated synthetic data would be a way of eliminating that bias. However, while there is quite a bit of work being done to produce more just datasets through synthetic data, at the same time, work we are doing is demonstrating the challenges of caring for intersectional representation when generating synthetic data. This presentation of our findings ends with a question to the audience about how synthetic data should be labelled and regulated.
14.45 – Q&A
15.15 – Snacks and open house
17.00 – End
We look forward to welcoming you at the opening of the AI Policy Lab!
Morning program
In the morning, we are holding presentations from the MMW Project “AI: destroyer or enabler of democracy”
9.30 – Welcome and fika
10.00 – 12- 00 – Short presentations (10+minutes each, followed by panel Q&A (topics tbc)
· Privacy and Self-determination (Kalle Grill and Björn Lundgren)
· Automated decision-making in the public sector (Andreas Ojehag)
· Political studies of automated governing (Malin Rönnblom)
· Democracy and self-determination in a participatory design process in the public sector of a virtual coach for behaviour change (Helena Lindgren)
· Global AI governance (Virginia Dignum)
· Tool/method for exploring enactment of self-determination (Luis Gustavo Ludesher)
12.00 – Lunch
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