Trustworthy AI regulations and their industrial/societal implications
Date and time: 4 April 2024, 13:00 – 16:15 CET – informal lunch 12.00-13:00
Title: Trustworthy AI regulations and their industrial/societal implications
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus, Stockholm
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/63920431339
Meeting ID: 639 2043 1339
A maximum of 50 participants are onsite at the Digital Futures hub. First come, first served.
The event is now fully booked, and registration is closed. Space can be offered in case of cancellations. If you want to be on the waiting list, please contact Martin Törngren (martint@kth.se) or Rafia Inam (rafia.inam@ericsson.com).
Workshop chairs and initiators: Martin Törngren (KTH) and Rafia Inam (KTH)
Co-sponsored by Digital Futures and co-organized by TECoSA
Welcome to this workshop that aims to promote stakeholders & community dialogues on AI in industrial and societal applications, emphasizing ongoing regulatory work, gaps (regulators/research/industry) and innovation ecosystem creation.
Current rapid technological developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) pose plenty of innovation opportunities and trustworthiness challenges – affecting all industrial domains and society!
The AI developments are taking place simultaneously with many technological innovations (e.g. sensors, communications, computing, additive manufacturing and augmented reality, to name a few) – leading to a socio-technical paradigm shift. This shift is reflected in changing regulations, standards, business models, insurance schemes, and new companies and collaborations. Specifically, in the digital decade of the EU, new regulations on AI, data, cyber-security, and digital services are being pursued, with related efforts in other parts of the world! At the same time, the legislation and standards are also evolving in virtually all industrial domains concerning AI and trustworthiness, some domains of which are already heavily regulated and some less so.
With all these developments, it is easy to get lost, and it is essential to understand that there will inherently be many (different) perspectives or viewpoints on what even the concepts of trustworthiness and AI mean, especially because of their broad applicability across industrial and societal domains. However, this challenge makes promoting dialogues and interactions between different stakeholders and communities even more important–representing this workshop’s important goal!
The following questions are of specific interest for this workshop:
- What is the state of the current AI regulation, and what are the next steps (regulations, guidelines, standards, etc.)
- What kind of regulations do we need? What are socio-technical considerations in balancing innovation and trustworthiness (cmp. for example, “AI alignment, An open letter to pause AI experiments”)?
- How do we reconcile the plethora of regulations and standards that will be overlapping and partly conflicting, reflecting different standpoints and inherent dependencies and tradeoffs (e.g. open data/learning/Explainable AI vs. privacy/confidentiality and IP; safety vs. performance/availability, etc.)?
- How does the AI act relate to and potentially conflict with other regulations, including domain-specific ones?
- What are the potential synergies? When/how can we reach convergence?
- How can we better bridge the gaps between regulators, industrial practitioners and researchers?
- How do we create innovative ecosystems promoting trustworthy AI and other sophisticated autonomous systems?
PROGRAM
LINK to bios, titles and abstracts of presenters and panellists
12:00 – Informal icebreaker lunch
13:00 – Session 1: Keynote and Invited short talks (1h+30 mins)
- Keynote talk by Tatjana Evas (EC) – “The AI Act: An Enabler for Trustworthy AI” (30 mins, 20+10)
- Short talks to set the context for the industrial panel (10+5)!
- Fredrik Heintz, Professor LIU (AI)
- Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Associate professor, Lund University (faculty of law)
- Anna Felländer, Anch AI
- Hans Hedin, Swedish Post & Telecom Authority (PTS)
14:30 – Leg stretch, coffee, and change to break out groups (15 mins)
14:45 – Session 2: Break out groups and brief reporting
- 20 min: Work session in groups, with one person providing a summary with 2 highlights: Main problems to be resolved? Most important action ahead? Note-taking in a shared doc. (verbose is very fine as long as 2 highlights are generated!)
- 20 min: Brief summaries per group (1 slide per group)
15:25 – Session 3: Panel debate – industrial responses (40 mins)
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- Shiva Sander-Tavallaey (ABB)
- Maria Ramstedt (Ericsson)
- Luis Martinez (Volvo cars)
- Anna Sööder (Schibsted)
- Potential further industrial representative
16:05 – Next steps and Wrap up (10 mins)
16:15 – End of Day