Seth Lazar and Atoosa Kasirzadeh are invited to be ethical reviewers for NeurIPS, as the world's leading machine learning conference explores new ways to build ethical thinking into AI research.
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Mind Design III will update Haugeland's classic reader on philosophy of artificial intelligence for the modern era. It will contain a mix of classic and contemporary readings, along with a new introduction to contextualise the topic for students. Expected publication date Q1 2021.
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Seth Lazar and Will Bateman have been invited to be Gradient Institute Fellows, cementing an ongoing partnership with Australia's leading group of ethical machine learning researchers and practitioners.
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Chelle was recently invited to become the Women in AI Ethics (WAIE) Regional Lead for Australia. Women in AI Ethics is a global network based on Recognition, Representation, and Empowerment.
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Sylvie Thiébaux, The Australian National University, Australia, Elected AAAI Fellow, 2020 for significant contributions to algorithms and applications of planning and scheduling, and service to the AI community.
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This impact-driven project funded by the Minderoo Foundation will produce concrete solutions (including model legislation) to regulate the use of AI by government agencies and public officials. It aims to ensure that Australia is an ‘action-leader’ in the race to ensure that AI is democratically and constitutionally legitimate.
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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.
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Seth Lazar was awarded (jointly) the ANU Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research. This is one of the university's highest honours for research excellence, and recognises Seth's contributions to philosophy, and to the leadership of the HMI Project.
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As a member of Women in AI, Chelle attended the Women Ambassadors Luncheon on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI at the National Press Club. A panel of eight thought leaders in AI including Genevieve Bell (ANU), Sally Cripps (USyd), Angela Kim (Zurich Insurance), Jeannie Marie Paterson (UMelb) and Catrina Denver (Monash) led an open debate discussing a number of today’s most pertinent AI issues.
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Colin Klein and Mark Alfano began work July 2019 on a $300,000 ARC grant to investigate ‘Trust in a social and digital world’. By using the tools of social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and network science, this project will identify how individuals should distribute their trust when embedded in epistemically hostile environments.
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