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! Letโs keep hashtag#ResponsibleAI and AI Safety at the heart of our effortsโit deserves our utmost attention! Order here:…
It’s a pity I missed attending the “Practical Approaches to Responsible AI Workshop” organized by the defence sector in person. CSIRO’s Data61‘s approach to responsible AI emphasizes practical, concrete, and measurable practices and outcomes. In software/system/AI engineering, the goal is always to create a trustworthy whole from less trustworthy parts, rather than focusing solely on…
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…
You might think discussing data (rather than AI) from the government is so last decade, but think again! ๐ค๐ก The Aus Government Data Summit was an absolute blast! ๐ The thoughtful questions and discussions from the public service continue to amaze me! ๐ I had the privilege of delivering my talk on “๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐: ๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ …
It was my privilege to present the opening keynote at Digital Transformation Summit, exploring one of my more provocative topics: “๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐.” This presentation navigated the audience through the evolving roles of humans (both laypersons and AI experts) in the progression from traditional, rule/logic/knowledge-based AI (GOFAI) to data-driven machine learning. It…
Lessons and observations from my meetings with Japan’s government and science agencies on critical tech, critical infrastructure, quantum, AI, and AI Safety! ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐บ A great two days. I had the privilege of engaging with the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), AI Safety Institute Secretariat (AISI), Information-technology Protection Agency (IPA), Ministry of…
What an intellectually stimulating two days at the AIST’s AI International Symposium 2024 in Japan! ๐ฏ๐ต๐ง The symposium focused on the “Future Direction for Trustworthy and Responsible AI”. Day 2 also covered the latest progress in AI for Science. Yoshua Bengio ‘s talk on “Towards Quantitative Safety Guarantees and AGI Alignment” was thought-provoking and sobering all…
Despite #AI dominating every conversation, the most fascinating developments often occur at the intersection of AI and other technologies, such as quantum computing, blockchain, and cybersecurity. Since its inception in 2016, I have chaired Australia’s blockchain standards committee, witnessing the rise, fall, and resurgence of interest and diverse use cases of blockchain/crypto. Vitalik Buterin’s recent article on…
