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AI Lund Trustworthy Human-Centric AI

AI Lund welcomes you take part of this talk that focus Fredrik Heintz’s work with ethical guidelines as member of the EU Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, here with particular interest in human-centric, social and cultural aspects. Fredrik Heintz is a visiting researcher at the department of communication and media (KOM), Lund University, and an Associate Professor in computer science at Linköping University.

Topic

Trustworthy Human-Centric AISpeaker: Dr. Fredrik Heintz, guest researcher at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University

The seminar is free of charge and open to students and staff at Lund university as well as to attendees from industry, public sector and the general public. Abstract: The European Union has taken the stance that AI should be trustworthy and developed in a human-centric way with the goal of improving individual and societal well-being. This talk will present the European approach to trustworthy human-centric AI and some research challenges related to it. To be trustworthy an AI-system should be lawful, ethical and robust, as defined by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. To operationalize these is a major challenge and will require new research. The second part of the talk gives an overview of the state-of-the-art and potential future solutions to these challenges.

Biography

Dr. Fredrik Heintz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at  Linköping University, Sweden and a guest researcher at the Department of  Communication and Media, Lund University. He leads the Stream Reasoning  group within the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated  Systems (AIICS) in the Department of Computer Science. His research  focus is artificial intelligence especially autonomous systems and the  intersection between knowledge representation and machine learning. He  is the Director of the Graduate School for the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), the President of the Swedish AI  Society and a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group  on AI. He is also very active in education activities both at the  university level and in promoting AI, computer science and computational  thinking in primary, secondary and professional education. Fellow of the  Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

Contact

The presentation is co-hosted by the department of communication and media (KOM) and AI Lund (formerly AIML).