Author: Chris Brantley

  IEEE’s Future Directions program continues its focus on digital privacy with a virtual workshop scheduled for 7-8 Oct. 2021.  The program is designed to bring together representatives from IEEE’s technical societies and councils to facilitate discussion on common interests in the area of Digital Privacy and encourage future society collaborations.  Among the topics that… Read more →

  The IEEE Computer Society is hosting a virtual Tech Form on 21-22 September 2021 that will explore ways that public policy, technology (including AI and machine learning), technology standards and other cutting-edge solutions can be employed to mitigate social harms originating in the misuse of social media.  The session will look at social media… Read more →

  The IEEE Standards Association has launched a new standards community that will focus on a host of tasks related to the responsible use of AI in health-related field including biosecurity.  Among the intended outputs are a map of AI-based technologies in the biological and health science fields relevant to biosecurity and development of a… Read more →

  Supported by the World Economic Forum, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance (GSCA) brings together municipal, regional and national governments, private-sector partners and cities’ residents around a shared set of principles for the responsible and ethical use of smart city technologies.  The Alliance recently released a roadmap report, Governing Smart Cities,… Read more →

  In a recent issue, IEEE SPECTRUM Contributing Editor Steven Cherry interviews Law Professor Ryan Abbott of the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom on the legal implications of Artificial Intelligence in a piece entitled “Can a Robot Be Arrested?  Hold a Patent?  Pay Income Taxes?”  Abbott is the author of  The Reasonable Robot:… Read more →

  On 30 June (1600 CEST), IEEE’s European Public Policy Committee (EPPC) is hosting a webinar exploring the EU approach to artificial intelligence, including possible roles and implications for the technology community in light of the European Commission’s new legal framework for AI.  Panelists will explore opportunities to harmonize AI rules and highlight IEEE’s efforts… Read more →

  As part of its TechInsiders series, SPECTRUM is offering a webinar on Thursday, June 3 (2:00 pm EDT) entitled “From Code to Congress: What technologists should know to participate in defining AI regulation.”   Featured speakers include Julia Stoyanovich, co-director of the Center for Responsible AI at NYU, and Mona Sloan, a Fellow of NYU’s… Read more →

  Representatives of IEEE’s European Public Policy Committee (EPPC) held a pair of meetings recently with EU entities providing input to policy-deliberations on EU cybersecurity strategy and the European Green Deal. The first meeting with representatives of the European Commission involved presentation of findings and recommendations on cybersecurity.  The meeting was instrumental in exploring how… Read more →

  IEEE TechEthics is engaged in a new virtual event series with the United Nation’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which aims to share technology solutions and promote substantive discussions among government officials, technologists, legal experts, ethicists, social scientists and others on topics related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The engagement began in… Read more →

  The World Economic Forum’s recently released Global Technology Governance Report suggests that “the emerging technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have a vital role to play as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and rebuild our economies.”  “Fourth Industrial Revolution” refers to artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things, mobility and drones and unmanned air… Read more →