Ana Paiva elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Ana Paiva has been elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
A researcher within the INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (as well as the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute), Professor Paiva is one of eleven distinguished researchers honoured with the 2023 AAAI Fellowship, joining an international select list that ranges from Northwestern, Duke and Tufts to Tsinghua University and the University of Alberta.
AAAI Fellows are selected by the Fellows Selection Committee from nominations made by the AAAI membership, and invariably, according to the very nature of this honour, are researchers who have “achieved unusual distinction in the field.” On bestowing Professor Paiva with this distinction, AAAI framed the Professor’s induction “For contributions to the development of embodied agents with social intelligence and their applications.”
AAAI has been a bastion for the advancement of artificial intelligence since its founding in 1979, promoting research in AI while upholding its ethical and responsible uses. Aside from doing important work on the public understanding of artificial intelligence, AAAI has elected its Fellows since 1990, recognizing researchers “who have made significant, sustained contributions — usually over at least a ten-year period — to the field of artificial intelligence.”
AAAI will celebrate the newly elected Fellows at the awards ceremony during AAAI-23, the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, taking place 7-14 February 2023 in Washington, D.C., USA.
We congratulate Professor Paiva for this well-deserved honor!
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NII International Internship Programme Presentation and Q&A by Emmanuel Planas
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Educational Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace and Security (UNODA)
On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Date & Time: June 6 a 7
Where: IST – Tagus Park, Porto Salvo
Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”