Why Artificial Intelligence - YAI?
AI for Collective Goals and a Better World
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become pervasive and present in every aspect of our life. It is a revolutionary technology that with massive data, computing power, machine learning and human inputs can do more than what humans can do. Humans are a crucial part of AI development in two fundamental ways: by providing instructions and feedback learning when using AI, and by choosing the goals of AI itself. What do we know about which type of AI can be built AI and the goals of these systems?
Mission: To promote knowledge and understanding of what AI is and start an active debate on which type of AI we want and need to develop. The transformative power of AI can be used for the benefits of all only with full transparency on who constructs AI, how and for which collective goals.
Team
Dr Chiara Binelli, YAI Program Director
Dr Matthew Loveless, YAI Senior Researcher
Tess Meggiolaro, YAI Junior Researcher
What we do
Goals
- Promote a vision and create a community that shape the priorities, set the agenda and lead the development of AI for society.
- Support research projects that transparently build AI with clear collective goals and explicitly account for the differential impact of AI on different groups.
- Organize and promote dissemination activities on building AI for society.
Target Audience
- Researchers developing and applying AI and machine learning in social contexts.
- Practitioners using AI for policy analysis, decision-making, and socially oriented applications.
- Researchers and professionals engaged in responsible AI, and in the ethical, methodological, and societal implications of data-driven systems.
- Civil society organizations and non-profit organizations that develop and promote training courses and educational programs on AI.
Your contribution supports:
- AI project incubator: support research projects to develop and promote a new type of AI with clear and transparent objectives and to solve collective problems
- Outreach program: promote knowledge and awareness of what AI now is and what AI could be through podcasts, conferences, workshops and public lectures.
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