Idiap Symposium - Perspectives on AI 4/5
As part of its symposium, theIdiap Research Institute, the initiator of the event, announces the 4th in its series of 5 RDVs dedicated to artificial intelligence: "Perspectives on AI". These events aim to bring together academics, industrialists and policy-makers to present their views on AI, in particular on how we can leverage it to tackle major societal and industrial challenges.
Details & online registration 3 free places are available for the Alp ICT community - contact the team to take advantage!
AI & democracy
Recent developments in AI, particularly generative AI, have revived the debate on the role and impact of AI on democracy. On the one hand, AI is an opportunity to improve democratic processes in our societies, AI can, for example, help identify sources of misinformation and thus enable citizens to better understand politics to engage more easily in democratic debate. On the other hand, it raises concerns about more negative impacts, precisely and among other things because this tool can be used to spread false information and influence public behavior.
Program
10:05: Democracy in the Time of AI: The Duty of the Media to Illuminate, Not Obscure
- Sara Ibrahim, swissinfo.ch
10h20: Automated Fact-checking: an NLP perspective
- Prof. Andreas Vlachos, University Cambridge
10h40: DemoSquare: Democratize democracy with AI
- Dr. Victor Kristof, Co-founder & CEO of DemoSquare
11h25: Democracy at risk with artificial intelligence?
- Prof. Solange Ghernaouti, SATW member, Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory & Research Group, UNIL
11h45: Claim verification from visual language on the web
- Julian Eisenschlos, AI Research @ Google DeepMind
12h05: Generative AI and Threats to Democracy: What Political Psychology Can Tell Us
- Dr Ashley Thornton, Geneva Graduate Institute
2:30 pm: Smartvote: the present and future of democracy-supporting tools
- Dr. Daniel Schwarz, co-founder Smartvote and leader of Digital Democracy research group at IPST, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
14h45: Is Democracy ready for the Age of AI?
- Dr. Georges Kotrotsios, Technology advisor, and former VP of CSEM
3:05pm: Fantastic hallucinations and how to find them
- Dr Andreas Marfurt, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
15h20: LOCO and DONALD: topic-matched corpora for studying misinformation language
- Dr Alessandro Miani, University of Bristol
Detailed program & online registration 3 free places are available for the Alp ICT community - contact the team to take advantage!
