As AI technology becomes more powerful, the impact on governance and the governance of AI becomes more important. The purpose of this panel is to bring together experts on Trustworthy AI and E-Governance to discuss the lessons learned so far and the challenges ahead. The goal is to provide a comprehensive review of challenges and potential solutions related to the future acceptance and beneficial application of AI-based solutions - including using AI for public benefit and applying AI for the common good.
Artificial Intelligence may be applied for various governmental functions providing citizen services; AI may be used within many segments of the public sector supporting the everyday work of elected representatives, officials, and administrators; governments have the obligation to regulate related industries and indeed the application of AI - including the investigation of the impact of various regulatory options; the public sector may promote acceptable practices regarding the use of AI while also helping the creation of necessary infrastructure or supporting business applications (such as investing in NLP applications for small languages).
The Panel investigates these options and avenues with a special focus on the question of trust and what it means to create, apply and govern trustworthy AI solutions.
Participants of the Panel will include (expert participants were not known at time of press): Fredrik Heintz (panel moderator), Linköping University (SE) - coordinator of the TAILORNetwork, an EU Project dedicated to the investigation of the Trustworthy AI and member of the High-level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence of the European Commission; Csaba Csáki, Corvinus University of Budapest (HU) - AI and MLOps expert representing the IFIP 8.5 WG, with background on public sector IT applications; Flavia Bernardini, Fluminense Federal University (BR) - Associate professor doing research on smart cities and open data portals; Roel Dobbe, Delft University of Technology (NL) - he works at the intersection of engineering, design and governance of data-driven and algorithmic control and decision-making systems; an expert providing an eGov perspective from a non-technical perspective; a Public Sector representative with some Artificial Intelligence experience.
The length of the panel is up to 90 minutes depending on the schedule.
The panel is supported by the TAILOR EU Network of Excellence. TAILOR is an EU project consisting of 54 partners in 20 countries with the aim of building the capacity to provide the scientific foundations for Trustworthy AI in Europe. TAILOR develops a network of research excellence centers, leveraging and combining learning, optimization, and reasoning. These systems are meant to provide descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive systems integrating data-driven and knowledge-based approaches.