HMI held a workshop in December 2023 to celebrate our achievements since our formation in 2019, as well as looking into the future of the research initiative.
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This sub-project is about the exercise of power through data and AI systems, and about how it can be rendered both just and legitimate. Among other themes, we explore how current practices of using data and AI to perform the functions of the administrative state fall short of existing standards of public law, we ask foundational questions about the nature of explanations, and the circumstances when they are morally called for, and we provide both policy advice and technical expertise in the development of just and legitimate data and AI systems.
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One of AI's most commercially successful applications—and one of the drivers of innovation—has been to use data and inferences about you to provide a personalised user experience: product recommendations, micro-targeted adverts, tailored newsfeeds, tailored prices. This automated personalisation has one goal: to affect your behaviour, in the pursuit of either profit or power. In this subproject, we explore how personalisation is changing our social world now, what the goals of personalisation should be, and how to realise those goals in real socio-technical systems.
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If we designed AI systems that were morally perfect in a vacuum, but didn't take into account the predictable way people react when interacting and using those systems, then we would end up with very bad AI systems. We need to take our limitations and biases into account when designing AI systems, but also think about how working with data and AI will change us.
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Our Algorithmic Ethics subproject aims to make progress on the fundamental questions that must be answered in order to incorporate moral considerations into automated systems that can make significant state-changes without intervening human control. We’ll be answering foundational questions in moral philosophy and theoretical AI, while also aiming to operationalise these discoveries in real AI systems, for example in care robots and autonomous vehicles.
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What does it mean to understand and design democratic AI? Seth Lazar introduces the methodological approach of the HMI team, and explains the goal of designing democratically legitimate machine intelligence.
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Congratulations to Dr. Will bateman (Australian National University, Law School) on his third HMI policy paper ‘Explanatory Memorandum: Model Law on the Registration of Algorithmic Decision - Systems’. Click through to read the full paper.
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Congratulations to Dr. Will bateman (Australian National University, Law School) on his second HMI policy paper ‘Legal Audit of AI in the Public Sector’. Click through to read the full paper.
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Congratulations to Dr. Will bateman (Australian National University, Law School) and Dr. Julia Powles (University of Western Australia, Law School) for their first HMI policy paper ‘Legal Audit of AI in the Public Sector’ funded by the Minderoo Foundation.
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Particular AI-related research and analysis needs have been identified by the Bangladesh Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme of the ICT Division and Cabinet Division of Bangladesh. Applicants are asked to choose one research question/problem, under either ‘Continuous Assessment’’ or ‘Pregnancy Monitoring’, to respond to in a policy research paper. (Representatives from the relevant government agencies will provide guidance to the researchers as they develop their papers.). Click through for more details!
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Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Logan of the Australian National University and Dr. Jasper Tromp of the National University of Singapore for winning research grants for this EOI. Sarah and Jasper will create a policy relevant papers for the Thai government in the areas of ‘Poverty Alleviation’ and ‘Medicine & Healthcare’ respectively.
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Seth Lazar has been made a Distinguished Research Fellow of the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and the Faculty of Philosophy. This honorary position is in recognition of the existing deep collaboration between Seth and the Oxford Institute, including through the PAIS consortium.
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