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Sep
27
Wed
AI-X Foundry Fall 2023 Symposium: Charting a New Course: Navigating AI in Research Traditions @ Shriver Hall, Johns Hopkins University
Sep 27 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Explore recent advances in AI and Data Science that are making a profound impact on human endeavors and are revolutionizing knowledge creation in disciplines ranging from science and medicine to social sciences and the arts.

Who should attend? 
Researchers, scientists, academics, students, industry professionals, and anyone interested in the cutting-edge applications of AI in research and knowledge creation.

What you’ll gain:

  • Unique viewpoints and perspectives from four distinguished speakers
  • Insights into the immense potential AI offers in accelerating research and innovation
  • Understanding AI’s influence across disciplines
  • Knowledge of ethical considerations and challenges that arise with research practices
  • Opportunities to engage and network with experts from diverse domains to uncover novel perspectives and approaches

Speakers:

  • Sareeta Amrute
  • Regina Barzilay
  • Fernando Pereira
  • Mitra Taheri

Schedule and more details coming soon!

Additional information: https://ai.jhu.edu/ai-x-symposium-fall-2023/

Oct
17
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Michael Oberst, Carnegie Mellon
Oct 17 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bio

Additional details coming soon.

Nov
14
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Grant Passmore, University of Cambridge @ JHU Homewood Campus, Malone Hall 228
Nov 14 @ 10:45 am – 11:45 am

Bio

Additional details coming soon.

How Do We Create an Assured Autonomous Future?

Autonomous systems have become increasingly integrated into all aspects of every person’s daily life. In response, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA) focuses on ensuring that those systems are safe, secure, and reliable, and that they do what they are designed to do.

Pillars of the IAA

Technology

Autonomous technologies perform tasks with a high degree of autonomy and often employ artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate human cognition, intelligence, and creativity. Because these systems are critical to our safety, health, and well-being as well as to the fabric of our system of commerce, new research and engineering methodologies are needed to ensure they behave in safe, reasonable, and acceptable ways…

Ecosystem

Autonomous systems must integrate well with individuals and with society at large. Such systems often integrate into—and form collectively into—an autonomous ecosystem. That ecosystem—the connections and interactions between autonomous systems, over networks, with the physical environment, and with humans—must be assured, resilient, productive, and fair in the autonomous future…

Ethics and Governance

The nation must adopt the right policy to ensure autonomous systems benefit society. Just as the design of technology has dramatic impacts on society, the development and implementation of policy can also result in intended and unintended consequences. Furthermore, the right governance structures are critical to enforce sound policy and to guide the impact of technology…

  • In recent years, we have learned that the most important element about autonomous systems is – for humans – trust. Trust that the autonomous systems will behave predictably, reliably, and effectively. That sort of trust is hard-won and takes time, but the centrality of this challenge to the future of humanity in a highly autonomous world motivates us all.
    Ralph Semmel, Director, Applied Physics Laboratory
  • In the not too distant future we will see more and more autonomous systems operating with humans, for humans, and without humans, taking on tasks that were once thought of as the exclusive domains of humans. How can we as individuals and as a society be assured that these systems are design for resilience against degradation or malicious attack? The  mission of the Institute is to bring assurance to people so that as our world is populated by autonomous systems they are operating safely, ethically, and in the best interests of humans.
    Ed Schlesinger Benjamin T. Rome Dean, Whiting School of Engineering