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AI Policy Lab Day 2025: Highlights and Reflections (Recording Available)
Date & Location: November 19, 2025, Umeå University, Västerbotten, Sweden The AI Policy Lab Day 2025 was rich in insight and exchange. Sennay Ghebreab delivered a keynote that grounded Question Zero in lived experience, reminding us that the decision to use, or not use AI is never a static checkpoint. He urged us to think…
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Humans in the loop – Film Screening and Discussion
Close out AI Policy Lab Day with a special screening of the acclaimed independent documentary Humans in the Loop, a powerful portrait of a young data annotator navigating the rapidly shifting AI industry in India. Date: Wednesday, November 19Time: 19:30 to 21:30 CETLocation: Rotundan, Universum, Umeå University Participation is free but registration is required and…
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WEBINAR: How can we soften the blow for the public sector when the Gen-AI bubble bursts?
Date: 8 December 2025 | 17:00–18:30 CETFormat: Online panel featuring short talks, followed by an open discussion About the Workshop With significant public investment and political capital currently riding on AI, particularly generative AI, the socio-economic and political consequences of the hype bubble bursting will be profound. This would be a fork in the road for states, and state authorities who have been championing and adopting GenAI. These…
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AI Policy Lab Day 2025
Date: Wednesday, November 19Day Programme: 12:30 to 16:45 CET (free lunch and fika included)Evening Programme: 19:30 to 21:30 CETLocation: Galaxen and Rotundan, Universum, Umeå University (see location in mazemap) Join us on Wednesday, November 19 for AI Policy Lab Day 2025 — an interactive afternoon showcasing the lab’s work on responsible AI and engaging participants…
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Responsible AI Self-assessment Workshop: Start with Question Zero
Date & Location: August 27, 2025, Umeå University, Västerbotten, Sweden On 27 August 2025, more than 100 participants joined the AI Policy Lab workshop Responsible AI Self-Assessment: Start with Question Zero at Umeå University and online. Together, we tested and debated the Responsible AI Self-Assessment Tool, designed to help organisations pause, reflect, and ask why…
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Global AI Policy Research Network Launched at UN IGF 2025 (Recording available)
Workshop #288: An AI Policy Research Roadmap for Evidence-Based AI PolicyDate & Location: June 26, 2025, Oslo, Norway At the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2025 in Oslo, Norway, AI Policy Lab @Umeå University (Virginia Dignum, Jason Tucker, Tatjana Titareva and colleagues) and Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Isadora Hellegren Létourneau, and colleagues), in cooperation…
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AI Technologies in Public Service: A Workshop for Identifying Needs, Challenges, and Solutions
Date & Location: April 9, 2025, Umeå University, Västerbotten, Sweden The workshop was organised by the AI Policy Lab in collaboration with the AI Technologies for Sustainable Public Service Co-creation (AICOSERV) project members. Overview The workshop brought together more than 50 stakeholders from the public and private sectors, as well as academia, to explore the…
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Responsible AI Retreat at Lövånger
On March 17 – 20, 2025 at Lövånger, AI Policy Lab (AIPL), Responsible AI group and Research Group for Socially Aware AI had a 3.5-day retreat with 15 participants from both units and Francien Dechesne from Leiden University, Netherlands. Participants discussed responsible AI from multiple perspectives – technological, ethical, and social. Below we share the…
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Bridging the Gap Between AI Research and Policy
The future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) lies not just in its technical advancements but in its responsible governance, underpinned by human-centered principles and policies. As such, AI policy research is an urgently needed area of focus, not just AI research, not just policy research, but a deliberate intersection of the two. This realization was at…
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ON EU’s plans for a scientific panel of independent experts
by: Virginia Dignum and Maja Fjaestad The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act envisages the establishment of a scientific panel of independent experts to advise on, and assist the AI Office and national market surveillance authorities with, implementing and enforcing the AI Act. The Commission is currently seeking public for input on implementing regulation establishing a scientific…
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