Connectionists: [meetings] Call for Participation: New Foundations for Human-Centered AI

[Alessandro Saffiotti]

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=  1st International Workshop on New Foundations for Human-Centered AI
=  September 4, part of ECAI-2020, free registration
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SYNOPSIS
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In June 2018, the European Commission has appointed a "AI High Level
Expert Group" (AI-HLEG) to support the implementation of the European
Strategy on Artificial Intelligence.  One of the first results of the
AI-HLEG has been to deliver ethics guidelines on Artificial Intelligence
(https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/ai-alliance-consultation/guidelines).
These guidelines put forward a human-centered approach to AI, and list
seven key requirements that human-centered, trustworthy AI systems
should meet.  Many of today's most popular AI methods, however, fail to
meet these guidelines: making them compliant is a scientific endeavor
that is as crucial as it is challenging and stimulating.

This full day workshop will collectively address the fundamental
questions of what are the scientific and technological gaps that we have
to fill in order to make AI systems "human-centered" in terms of the
above guidelines.

PROGRAM
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See the full program at the workshop web site:

   http://nehuai2020.aass.oru.se/

REGISTRATION
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The workshop is part of ECAI-2020, the European Conference on AI.  To
attend the workshop, you must register at https://digital.ecai2020.eu
(free registration).

ORGANIZERS
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Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University, Sweden)
Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
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This worskhop is jointly organized by AI4EU (ai4eu.eu), the EU landmark
project to develop a European AI on-demand platform and ecosystem; and
by Humane-AI (humane-ai.eu), the EU FET preparatory action devoted to
designing a European research agenda for Human Centered AI.

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