by Admin | May 6, 2019 | News
In general, AI advances are good for our society. In particular cases, they can be bad. Take Amazon’s Rekognition AI service. There are evidences that the service exhibited much higher error rates on images of darker-skinned women versus lighter-skinned men. Our AIWS Weekly Newsletter last month discussed the controversies over Rekognition AI, Amazon’s facial recognition software. Notably, in March, a group of 26 prominent research scientists, including Dr. Yoshua Bengio, this year’s winner of the Turing Award (the Nobel Prize equivalence in the field of Computing), called for the company to stop selling Rekognition AI to police departments.
The Washingpost just published a detailed post on this matter. It started in late 2017 when the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon became the first law enforcement agency to test Rekognition. Almost overnight, deputies saw their investigative powers supercharged. But what if Rekognition gets it wrong? Earlier, after inquiries from the Post, Amazon updated its guidelines for law enforcement to advise officers to manually review all matches before detaining a suspect.
According to the Post, Amazon executives say they support national facial-recognition legislation, but arguing that “new technology should not be banned or condemned because of its potential misuse.” On the other side, “people love to always say, ‘Hey, if it’s catching bad people, great, who cares,’ ” said Joshua Crowther, a chief deputy defender in Oregon, “until they’re on the other end.”
The question whether we should use Rekognition because of its value knowing it is not perfect does have a moral impact. This example of an AI service with potential bias highlights the importance of an ethical framework in the development and use of AI. This is exactly the topic of a roundtable hosted by the Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) in Tokyo in March 2019. We believe that regulation from the government level is needed to avoid any broad release of AI software that may have bias against any population.
by Admin | Apr 4, 2019 | News
The forthcoming AI World Society – G7 Summit Initiative will focus on
the AI-Government Model for democracy in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
This is a new and evolutionary political development.
AI-Standards and Government Concepts
- Time: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm, April 25, 2019
- Venue: Loeb House, Harvard University, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
AGENDA of AIWS-G7 Summit Conference
- Governor Michael Dukakis: Opening Remarks
- Nam Pham、the Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade, Governmentof Massachusetts: Congratulations
- Arnaud Mentré, Consul General of France in Boston: The French Perspective on Artificial Intelligence and the G7 Summit
- Professor Thomas Patterson: AI World Society – G7 Summit Initiative
- Governor Michael Dukakis: Presents the AI World Society – G7 Summit Initiative to the Government of France
- Vint Cerf, the Father of the Internet: Honored as World Leader in AI World Society (AIWS)
- Vint Cerf: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Internet
- Paul Nemitz: Legal Concepts for AI – Layer 4 of AI World Society
- Conference Delegates: Open Discussion
- Governor Michael Dukakis: Closing Remarks
Download Agenda AIWS-G7 Summit 2019
by Admin | Mar 15, 2019 | Event Updates, AI World Society Distinguished Lecture
Theme: AI World Society Standards
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm, March 26, 2019
Venue: Hitachi Central Laboratory in Kokubunji, Tokyo
AI World Society Distinguished Lecturer:
Dr.Kazuo Yano, Ph.D., Fellow, Corporate Officer, Hitachi, Ltd., Member of AI World
Society Standards and Practice Committee
Agenda:
- 4:30 pm: Introduction, Ms. Nobue Mita, Representative of the Boston Global Forum
in Japan
- Opening Remarks, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, and CEO of the Boston Global
Forum, Director of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation.
- 4:40 pm: AI World Society Standards, Mr. Kazuo Yano, Ph.D., Fellow, Corporate
Officer, Hitachi, Ltd., Member of AI World Society Standards and Practice
Committee.
- 5:40 pm: Discussion: Dr.Kazuo Yano, Ph.D., fellow, cooperate officer from Hitachi, Mr.Yuichi Iwata, senior researcher from Nakasone Peace Institute, Mr.Kei Yamamoto, the president of D-Ocean and Mr.Yuji Ukai, the president of FFRI.
- 6:25 pm: Present Certificate of AI World Society Distinguished Lecturer to Dr.Kazuo Yano by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan
- 6:30 pm: Closing Remarks.
Full agenda and our speakers and discussants, please download Agenda of AIWS Distinguished Lecture
by Admin | Sep 17, 2018 | News
On January 14th-19th, 2019, the first regional leadership seminar in the framework of its flagship “Young Mediterranean Voices” programme will be launched with the participation of top countries’ leaders of this programme. The aim is to create an exciting method for attendees to take part in the discussion on common social challenges encountered in the Mediterranean.
The seminar will give participants a chance to act as leaders or ambassadors. Then, they will present their approaches to advocacy and communication. In addition, the program’s trainees will be given direct exposure to world leaders and policy makers who are Club de Madrid’s members.
