Gender fairness in (socio-legal) robotics

by admin | May 19, 2021 | Blog Post

During a dinner in Stockholm at the very first workshop of the WASP-HS programme, Ginevra Castellano, a social roboticist, and I discussed how AI technologies may mirror human behavior and, ultimately, social structures. With a focus on existing social structures...

The myth of complete AI-fairness

by admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Blog Post

Just recently, IBM invited me to participate in a panel titled “Will AI ever be completely fair?” My first reaction was that it surely would be a very short panel, as the only possible answer is ‘no’. In this blog, I wish to further motivate my position in that...

Moving Knowledge from the University to the Public Sphere (and Back)

by admin | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog Post

One of WASP-HS’s goals is to be more than an ivory tower, and the most recent community reference meeting (on Healthcare, March 25) was a beautiful example of academic researchers situated firmly on the ground, embedded in the public dialogue about artificial...

Multidisciplinarity is at the core

by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog Post

Isabel García Velázquez, PhD student at Linköping University, attended the WASP-HS healthcare meeting on 25 March. Read her reflections from the meeting. “Really inspiring to witness how academia, public and private sector come together in this diverse but...

Mapping the Ethics of Learning Analytics in Higher Education

by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Blog Post

Teresa Cerratto-Pargman, Associate Professor of Human-Computer interaction, Stockholm University, and PI for the WASP-HS project Ethical and Legal Challenges in Relationship to AI-driven Practices in Higher Education, writes in this blog post about AI-driven...

Three excellent examples of interdisciplinarity in AI research

by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog Post

“Young AI researchers — at least here in Sweden — are proving themselves to be flexible, interdisciplinary thinkers.” That is a conclusion Erik Campano, PhD student at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, draws after attending the...