Operationalising AI Governance – a hands-on approach to ethical AI

ABSTRACT

AI Governance is becoming the natural next step in organizations’ AI maturity journey, beyond the benefits of efficiency, productivity and new products and services. AI Governance is here to create the preconditions for compliant and ethical AI systems. In the end, AI Governance is all about better business, where informed accountability, standardization in governing AI, ethical alignment with stakeholders and efficient steering of AI will enable digital trust in the use of AI.

BIO

Giovanni Leoni is the Head of Business Strategy & Development at Credo AI. Up until recently he was Global Head of Algorithm and AI Ethics at Inter IKEA Group, responsible for developing, implementing, and leading the operationalization of responsible analytics across the Inter IKEA Group. He is an active contributor to the global AI ethics community, engaging in legislative industry consultations and various forums and bodies, among them being on the Board of Advisors for Ethical Artificial Intelligence Governance Group, Board Member for Transparency International Sweden, Nordic Ethical AI Expert Group member for Nordic Innovation and also a Member of the Responsible Applications & Transformation Working Group at the World Economic Forum.

Neurosymbolic Learning for Trustworthy AI

ABSTRACT

The abilities to learn and to reason are central to (artificial) intelligence. The focus in AI today is very much on learning, but one should not learn what one already knows. The challenge therefore is to use the available knowledge to guide and constrain the learning, and to reason with the resulting models in a trustworthy manner. This requires the integration of different paradigms for AI, which is the focus of neurosymbolic AI, often viewed as the next wave in AI.

The talk will contrast traditional AI techniques (such as search and rule-based AI) with those of deep learning and large language models. I will argue that we need to combine the best of both worlds to arrive at trustworthy AI, especially AI that exploits knowledge, provides genuine explanations and strong guarantees with regards to safety and robustness.

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Highlights of the AI Act – for better or worse

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In this keynote, I will present a few highlights of the AI Act that now has been finally decided by the European Parliament. It has been a long and winding legislative road, and a few bits and pieces remain before the law will enter into force and become applicable. The Act is extensive, detailed and there are plenty of provisions that will need to be interpreted and analysed. My keynote will focus on a few central areas, such as terminology and classifications, prohibitions, innovation support measures and monitoring and sanctions, but will also present a contextual overview of other legislative measures from the EU, closely connected to the AI Act.

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