In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In the latest interview, we hear from … Read More
Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: April 2025 edition
This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 1 April and 31 May 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 1 April 2025 Lie-Poisson Neural Networks (LPNets): Data-Based Computing of Hamiltonian Systems Speaker: Vakhtang Poutkaradze (University of Alberta) Organised by: University of Minnesota Zoom registration … Read More
AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct
Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / Model Collapse / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Jon Whittle, CSIRO and Stefan Harrer, CSIRO In February this year, Google announced it was launching “a new AI system for scientists”. It said this system was a collaborative tool designed to help scientists “in creating novel hypotheses and research plans”. It’s … Read More
AIhub monthly digest: March 2025 – human-allied AI, differential privacy, and social media microtargeting
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month’s digest includes four interviews. We hear from two newly-elected AAAI Fellows, and two researchers at the start of their careers, to find out about their different research areas – human-allied AI, … Read More
AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language
Hyunchul Lim wears the SpellRing. Photo credit: Louis DiPietro By Louis DiPietro A Cornell-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign Language (ASL). In its current form, SpellRing could be used to enter text into computers or smartphones via fingerspelling, which is used … Read More
How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
By John McMullan, Murdoch University and Glen Stasiuk, Murdoch University It feels like everything is slowly but surely being affected by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). And like every other disruptive technology before it, AI is having both positive and negative outcomes for society. One of these negative outcomes is the very specific, yet very real cultural harm posed … Read More
Interview with Lea Demelius: Researching differential privacy
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In the latest interview, we hear from … Read More
The Machine Ethics podcast: Careful technology with Rachel Coldicutt
Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. Careful technology with Rachel Coldicutt This episode we’re chatting with Rachel about AI taxonomy, innovating for everyone not just the few, Rachel’s chronic honesty, responsibilities of … Read More
Interview with AAAI Fellow Roberto Navigli: multilingual natural language processing
Each year the AAAI recognizes a group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence by appointing them as Fellows. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll be talking to some of the 2025 AAAI Fellows. In this interview we hear from Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, who was elected as … Read More
Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy
By Bradley Wade Bishop, University of Tennessee Ice cores in freezers, dinosaurs on display, fish in jars, birds in boxes, human remains and ancient artifacts from long gone civilizations that few people ever see – museum collections are filled with all this and more. These collections are treasure troves that recount the planet’s natural and human history, and they help … Read More