Our Work
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.
Read MoreUnderstanding causation is one of the crucial frontiers of discovery in artificial intelligence, where we increasingly depend on machine learning models that inadequately represent causal relations. Philosophical work analysing the nature of causation lays crucial foundations both for advancing AI itself, and for the many deployments of causal reasoning necessary to develop democratically legitimate AI.
Read MoreProfessor 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.
Read MoreIn this project, we aim to link attention metrics and communication strategies to real world actions. In particular, we start by contrasting popularity and engagement of online social movements. We then link the measurements to real-world metrics of these activities, as measured by participant turnout, election outcome, legislative success, and others. Answers to these questions will empower content producers, consumers, and hosting platforms to channel attention in mutually beneficial, and socially responsible ways.
Read MoreWe show that "guilt" can stably evolve in the context of an iterated prisoners dilemma despite the existence of "fakers" when apology signals are costly or difficult to fake. The more repeated interactions between agents, the easier it is for guilt to evolve.
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