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How healthcare systems could use AI technology to tackle COVID-19

Image: Wikipedia. Published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence By Justine Olawande Daramola, Cape Peninsula University of Technology COVID-19 and its grave impact worldwide has emphasised just how criti...
23 April 2020, by

Thinking about ‘ethics’ in the ethics of AI

By Pak-Hang Wong and Judith Simon A major international consultancy firm identified ‘AI ethicist’ as an essential position for companies wanting to successfully integrate artificial intelligenc...
16 April 2020, by

Engineering Out Loud: S9E2 – AI, explain yourself

Artificial intelligence systems are being entrusted with critical choices that can change lives. Alan Fern, a professor of computer science, wants them to explain themselves. Can we trust artificia...
07 April 2020, by

AIhub coffee corner: Can we avoid another “AI winter”?

The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a 30-minute conversation. This edition focusses on the state of the AI research landscape amid claims from some quarters that we are on ...
13 March 2020, by

Conferences – could virtual be a reality?

The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen disruption and cancellation of a number of scientific conferences. One of the biggest casualties was the APS March meeting, the world’s largest physics conference,...
12 March 2020, by

Engineering Out Loud: S9E1 – the beautiful music of robotics and AI

Professors Kagan Tumer (left) and Tom Dietterich discuss their research at the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute. How do you integrate ethics, policy, and practicality into t...
06 March 2020, by



AI in tweets – February 2020

Here are a selection of tweets we have collected from February 2020....
04 March 2020, by

First analysis of the EU whitepaper on AI

Image courtesy of ALLAI. By Virginia Dignum, Catelijne Muller and Andreas Theodorou This week, Europe took a clear stance on AI; foster the uptake of AI technologies, underpinned by what it call...
28 February 2020, by

Interview with Vidal Alcázar – #AAAI20 award winner

Vidal Alcázar, Pat Riddle and Mike Barley receiving their honorable mention award at AAAI-20, New York. Photo credit: AAAI. Vidal Alcázar, Pat Riddle and Mike Barley received an honourable me...
25 February 2020, by

AIhub coffee corner: AI as an inventor

The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a 30-minute conversation. This edition focusses on AI as an inventor. This discussion was prompted by news that an artificial intelligen...
14 February 2020, by

AI in tweets – January 2020

Happy new year 2020! Below are the tweets about AI we have collected this month....
31 January 2020, by

AI Policy Matters – US national AI strategy

By Larry Medsker AI Policy Matters is a regular column in AI Matters featuring summaries and commentary based on postings that appear twice a month in the AI Matters blog....
30 January 2020, by and

AI is transforming medicine – but it can only work with proper sharing of data

Anonymised data is crucial for AI to work. alphaspirit/Shutterstock By Ara Darzi, Imperial College London It is not often that one witnesses a transformational advance in medicine. But the appli...
23 January 2020, by

Computing Up – Michael Carbin computes the winning ticket and more

Michael Carbin, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, joins Michael Littman and Dave Ackley to discuss neural net lottery tickets, computing with uncertainty and m...
22 January 2020, by

AI in tweets – November and December 2019

We have collected some of the most interesting tweets about AI from the past couple of months....
10 January 2020, by

#NeurIPS – tackling climate change with machine learning

Climate change was one of the many topics covered at NeurIPS 2019 (the Thirty-third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems), with a day-long workshop dedicated to the theme. The se...
08 January 2020, by

AI Policy Matters – facial recognition, deepfakes, AI regulation and policy

AI Policy Matters is a regular column in AI Matters featuring summaries and commentary based on postings that appear twice a month in the AI Matters blog....
21 November 2019, by and

Computing Up – Living computation and society

Michael Littman and Dave Ackley revisit the meaning of life (the subject of the second Computing Up conversation) in the context of politics and society and human destiny....
21 November 2019, by

Last month in tweets – September 2019

Every month, we gather some of the most interesting tweets capturing latest results, debates, and events....
03 October 2019, by

Computing Up – Theories of theories of everything

Inspired by a WIRED profile of Karl Friston, Michael Littman and Dave Ackley talk about theories of everything, and theories thereof....
03 October 2019, by

Tackling climate change with AI

By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser As concerns about the impact of climate change (PDF) grow, so too is the debate about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technolog...
11 August 2019, by

From bench to bedside: AI for health and care

By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies over the last five years have generated great excitement, especially in the areas of health and ca...
13 July 2019, by

AI Profiles: Interview with Leslie Kaelbling

By Marion Neumann Welcome to the eighth interview profiling a senior AI researcher. This time we will hear from Leslie Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Depar...
29 June 2019, by

Springing into conferences (at the AAAI spring symposium)

In March of this year I was lucky to travel to my first academic conference (thanks very much to EPSRC Rise and AAAI). Feeling a little bit nervous, extremely jet-lagged, and completely in awe of Stan...
01 June 2019, by

AI Profiles: An Interview with Thomas Dietterich

By Marion Neumann Welcome to the eighth interview in our series profiling senior AI researchers. This month we are especially happy to interview our SIGAI advisory board member, Thomas Dietterich, Di...
22 April 2019, by

Robust human organizations: Lessons for artificial intelligence research and application

In the 1980s and 1990s, several researchers (most notably Todd LaPorte, Gene Rochlin, and Karlene Roberts) undertook the study of human organizations that operate high-risk systems while achieving ver...
11 April 2019, by






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