Or: Meaningful human control over Artificial Intelligence, AI

With the advance of AI, we also face the problem of keeping AI under 'meaningful human control'. Catholijn Jonker will share three definitions of AI to give insight into how far we have come since the 1960s and how far we can still go. We will then move into the realm of Hybrid Intelligence, where human and artificial intelligence work together in a way that augments human intellect, while the AI part also exhibits autonomous behaviour. This autonomy is an aspect that carries potential and risks and therefore specifically requires meaningful human control and ethics.

Catholijn Jonker will illustrate these concepts and challenges with examples and then discuss the potential of combining different forms of AI techniques with human intelligence to address these issues. In particular, the knowledge technological side of AI will be called upon to contain Machine Learning algorithms and form self-reflective hybrid intelligent systems.

Catholijn Jonker (1967) is professor of Interactive Intelligence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology. Jonker studied computer science and obtained her PhD at Utrecht University. After a postdoctoral position in Bern, Switzerland, she became assistant (later associate professor) at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at VU University Amsterdam.

Her publications deal with cognitive processes and concepts such as negotiation, teamwork and the dynamics of individual agents and organisations. In all her lines of research, Catholijn takes a values-sensitive approach. In particular, she works on intelligent agents that can communicate with their users in value-conflicting situations where even meta-values no longer resolve the situation. From 2006, Catholijn has been working at TU Delft, with an interdisciplinary team to create synergy between humans and technology by understanding, shaping and using the fundamentals of intelligence and interaction. And as of 2017, Catholijn works as a part-time professor at Leiden University at the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science LIACS.

Drinks start at 18:00 and the meal follows punctually at 19:00, after which the lecture can start at 20:00. End around 22:00.

Further information or registration can be obtained via: kringrotterdam@kivi.nl

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