Category: Impact

  • Transforming AI Assurance: The Role of Data61 in National and Global Contexts

    Transforming AI Assurance: The Role of Data61 in National and Global Contexts

    Itโ€™s great to see the โ€œ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐…๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐†๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญโ€ released. CSIRO’s Data61โ€™s work is โ€œin-focusโ€ in several places, such as the ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ ๐‚๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฎ๐ž (Qinghua Lu) for risk mitigation https://lnkd.in/gkxVSKTz , and the ๐€๐ˆ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž (Prof Didar Zowghi Muneera Bano) https://lnkd.in/gKJqX4q7 . We continue to…

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  • India Trip Recap: Paving the Way for Responsible and Safe AI
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    India Trip Recap: Paving the Way for Responsible and Safe AI

    Just finished my India trip. This was my last stop on my journey to build a global research network for responsible and safe AI, having already connected with partners in America, Europe, the UK, Singapore, Japan, and Malaysia. On the government side, I met with the Principal Scientific Advisorโ€™s Office and the Department of Science…

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  • Our Pioneering AI Safety Work Featured in the Latest Scientific Report

    Our Pioneering AI Safety Work Featured in the Latest Scientific Report

    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…

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  • Responsible AI through the Lens of ESG

    Responsible AI through the Lens of ESG

    Coverage from 23 media outlets within the first 24 hoursโ€” 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…

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  • Trailblazing AI: How Our Book and Researchers Are Making Global Waves

    Trailblazing AI: How Our Book and Researchers Are Making Global Waves

    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! Letโ€™s keep hashtag#ResponsibleAI and AI Safety at the heart of our effortsโ€”it deserves our utmost attention! Order here:…

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  • Malaysia, Singapore, UK and ICSE Lisbon 2024
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    Malaysia, Singapore, UK and ICSE Lisbon 2024

    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…

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  • 2nd International Workshop on Responsible AI Engineering & Book Lounge

    2nd International Workshop on Responsible AI Engineering & Book Lounge

    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…

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  • CAIN/AI Engineering 2024

    CAIN/AI Engineering 2024

    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…

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  • FM+SE Vision 2030 in Mexico City

    FM+SE Vision 2030 in Mexico City

    I am often asked, โ€œ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐บ๐‘ƒ๐‘‡ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž, ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›?โ€ 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…

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  • The Hiroshima AI Process and Beyond: A Deep Dive into Japan’s AI Governance and Innovations

    The Hiroshima AI Process and Beyond: A Deep Dive into Japan’s AI Governance and Innovations

    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 JSTโ€™s Trustworthy/Trusted AI programs, Tokyo University, Waseda University, NII, RIKEN AIP, and AIST. Exciting collaboration opportunities lie…

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