Toni — Our Work — Humanising Machine Intelligence

Expression of Interest - Call to collaborate with the Bangladesh Government 'AI for Social Good Project'

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!

News, PolicyHMI Staff31 March 2022Toni, Chelle

Successful research grants awarded to Dr. Sarah Logan & Dr. Jasper - UNESCAP, APRU, Google.org 'AI for Social Good' project

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.

News, PolicyHMI Staff31 March 2022Sarah, Toni, Chelle

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

HMI CI Toni Erskine is academic lead for a major collaboration on 'AI for Social Good', uniting the UN Economic and Social Council for the Asia-Pacific (UN ESCAP), Google, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Toni, in collaboration with HMI staff, will assist in building out the multi-stakeholder network and policy insight briefs developed from the AI for Social Good Project and Summit.

NewsHMI Staff2 November 2021Toni

100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics

Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Chelle Adamson and Toni Erskine have been included on the 2021 list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics! See the full list here.

NewsHMI Staff4 March 2021Atoosa, Chelle, Toni

Submission to AHRC on Human Rights and Technology

In a joint submission, HMI identified 7 areas for further development in the Human Rights and Technology discussion paper proposed by the Australian Human Rights Commission. The main three concerned: defining ‘AI-informed decision-making’; the demand for explanations; and the absence of a formally link between design and assessment.

Policy, Automating-GovernanceSeth Lazar10 March 2020Claire, Seth, Chelle, Toni, Jenny, Design

Military Applications of AI, International Security, and Arms Control Workshop

Professor Toni Erskine, HMI Discovery Lead, presented at the workshop on 'Military Applications of AI, International Security, and Arms Control', hosted by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, convened by David Danks (Carnegie Mellon University), Paul Meyer (Simon Fraser University), and Giaocomo Paoli (UNIDIR). The workshop was held on the 30th and 31st of January 2020 in Santa Monica, California.

Automating-Governance, PresentationHMI Staff20 January 2020Toni, Discovery

AI for Social Good

From 2019, Professor Toni Erskine, Discovery Lead, has served on the Advisory Group for the Google/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), ‘AI for the Social Good’ Research Network, administered by the Association for Pacific Rim Universities.

News, ResourcesHMI Staff10 December 2019Toni

Responsibility Lost? AI, Restraint, and the Consequences of Outsourcing Decision-making in War

Professor Toni Erskine was Keynote Speaker at a public event hosted by the University of Tokyo 6 December 2019. Her lecture was titled, 'Responsibility Lost? AI, Restraint, and the Consequences of Outsourcing Decision-making in War'.

Automating-GovernanceHMI Staff6 December 2019Toni, Design

Tokyo Forum 2019

Prof Toni Erskine was an invited speaker at the Tokyo Forum 2019. She presented some of her recent work on a panel on 'The Digital Revolution: Social Science and Policy'.

Automating-Governance, PresentationHMI Staff6 December 2019Toni, Public-Talk

Moral Skill and Artificial Intelligence (External Grant)

As humans, our skills define us. No skill is more human than the exercise of moral judgment. We are already using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate morally-loaded decisions. In other domains of human activity, automating a task diminishes our skill at that task. Will 'moral automation' diminish our moral skill? If so, how can we mitigate that risk, and adapt AI to enable moral 'upskilling'? Our project, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, will use philosophy, social psychology, and computer science to answer these questions.

Grants, Human-AI InteractionSeth Lazar25 November 2019TWCF, Seth, Claire, Colin, Toni, Jenny

Artificial Intelligence, Politics and Security in the Asia Pacific

This workshop was convened by HMI discovery lead Toni Erskine on behalf of the Coral Bell School and HMI, together with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Scholars and practitioners from the UK, China, and Australia addressed the question of how AI poses new challenges for security.

Events, Automating-GovernanceHMI Staff21 March 2019Toni, Discovery

Shedden Lecture

Professor Toni Erskine, HMI Discovery Lead, gave the final Shedden Lecture of the year to a full lecture theatre at the Australian Department of Defence on 'AI, Ethics, and War' on 29 November 2018 . The lecture was followed by a lively Q&A session.

Automating-Governance, PresentationHMI Staff29 November 2018Toni, Public-Talk