As foreshadowed in my last post, the most anticipated scientific report on the safety of advanced AI is out, led by Yoshua Bengio for the AI Safety Summit in Seoul. https://lnkd.in/gkmKEYUC It’s a balanced and thoughtful report. CSIRO’s Chief Scientist, Bronwyn Fox is on the Expert Advisory Panel, and I had the privilege of reviewing…
Coverage from 23 media outlets within the first 24 hours— and the number is still climbing! We’re thrilled by the community’s enthusiastic response to the latest publication on viewing Responsible AI through the lens of ESG. This work tackles two key challenges I observed: 1. Executives and boards are overwhelmed by competing risk silos demanding…
You know you’re too into your own book when you’re checking rankings like it’s your daily horoscope. Well, the stars aligned, and we’re effectively #3 for AI books globally! Shoutout to everyone who has supported our work! Let’s keep hashtag#ResponsibleAI and AI Safety at the heart of our efforts—it deserves our utmost attention! Order here:…
The three-week international trip focusing on AI engineering, responsible and safe AI, and Australia’s stance on AI safety science, standards, and industry adoption has now concluded. Here are the highlights and key learnings from each destination visited: Malaysia: The trip started in Malaysia where I was hosted by Aini Suzana Ariffin, a key figure behind…
Day 3 at ICSE! We CSIRO’s Data61 organised the 2nd international workshop on responsible AI engineering, with committee members from the US (NIST Apostol Vassilev, Germany (Fraunhofer Maximilian Poretschkin), and Canada (Foutse Khomh). The event saw fantastic attendance, with almost all seats filled and additional chairs brought in to accommodate the crowd, with some attendees…
What an incredible first one and a half days at hashtag#ICSE2024 in Lisbon! We CSIRO’s Data61 kicked off our time at the co-located CAIN (AI Engineering conference) by presenting three papers: Qinghua Lu unveiled the taxonomy work for foundation model-based systems (https://lnkd.in/gf6dm8_m), and Boming Xia handled double duties with his presentations on metrics for responsible…
I am often asked, “𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑡𝐺𝑃𝑇 𝑒𝑟𝑎, 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛?” Powerful Foundation Models (FM) not only write increasingly sophisticated code, but they also perform a growing range of functions within the trained blackbox model, where no traditional code is ever written. My answer was finally put to the…
Just wrapped up an insightful trip to Japan! After presenting NAIC/Data61’s work on responsible AI at the UN IGF, I had the privilege to visit several top AI institutes and delve deeper into Japan’s AI initiatives, such as JST’s Trustworthy/Trusted AI programs, Tokyo University, Waseda University, NII, RIKEN AIP, and AIST. Exciting collaboration opportunities lie…
I am thrilled to participate in this year’s UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Kyoto, where the discussion on Responsible AI and GenAI takes center stage. On the first day, I had the honour of speaking about Australia’s approach to Responsible AI and contributing to the panel titled “Shaping AI Technologies to Ensure Respect for…
In my new CEDA – Committee for Economic Development of Australia opinion piece, https://lnkd.in/gjbK3Uej I tackle three pervasive challenges I’ve observed: 1. The tendency to view responsible AI as nothing more than a buzzword or truism. Is AI really special, or can we simply graft AI considerations onto existing governance frameworks? 2. The communication gap between executives, board…
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