Artificial Intelligence

The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI contains four principles and, derived from them, seven requirements for AI systems.

2020 - Information Commissioner consultation on explaining AI

Friday, January 24, 2020 - 14:39

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19 December 2019 at 12:08pm

Building blocks for trustworthy AI in education

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[UPDATE: my slides are now available] This week I've been presenting at an event on Artificial Intelligence in Education, organised by the Finnish Government in their current role as EU Presidency. Specifically I was asked to look at where we might find building blocks for the ethical use of AI in education.

23 January 2018 at 11:26am

AI in Education: is it different?

Learning Analytics

#EthicalHEAI

Reflecting on the scope chosen by Blackboard for our working group - "Ethical use of AI in Education" - it's worth considering what, if anything, makes education different as a venue for artificial intelligence. Education is, I think, different from commercial businesses because our measure of success should be what pupils/students achieve. Educational institutions should have the same goal as those they teach, unlike commercial settings where success is often a zero-sum game.

17 January 2018 at 3:54pm

Explaining AI algorithms

Learning Analytics

#EthicalHEAI

One of the concerns commonly raised for Artificial Intelligence is that it may not be clear how a system reached its conclusion from the input data. The same could well be said of human decision makers: AI at least lets us choose an approach based on the kind of explainability we want. Discussions at last week's Ethical AI in HE meeting revealed several different options:

17 January 2018 at 3:56pm

Ethical use of AI in HE