Silver linings signal our need for AI and Data transformation

26 May 2020

When I speak with my family in the United Kingdom, I feel very fortunate to have experienced such a life changing pandemic from a country so willing to take decisive action and reduce potential harm. Now is the time to take a serious look at the silver linings of this experience and recognise how digital transformation saved us. We must take the evidence and cast it forward to recognise AI’s transformative role if we are to keep thriving in adversity. This includes investment into all aspects of AI and data in New Zealand.

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Open Our Data, Not Our Borders!

09 April 2020

Amidst the current pandemic, countries around the globe have scrambled to action with hopeful and inventive AI tools. Some of these tools can not only diagnose faster, cheaper and more accurately, but help us cope with the wide ranging ramifications.

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Steps to building trustworthy AI in Aotearoa

04 March 2020

The AI Forum of New Zealand today published a set of guiding principles to help build public trust in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) across New Zealand.

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Government Use of Artificial Intelligence in New Zealand

A report from the AI and Law in New Zealand Project. The AI Forum’s 2018 report, Artificial Intelligence: Shaping a Future New Zealand, suggested that adoption of AI in New Zealand Government is currently ‘disconnected and sparsely deployed.’
12 June 2019
AI & Government

Humanitarian Disarmament: Banning Killer Robots, events with Mary Wareham

Aotearoa New Zealand Campaign to Stop Killer Robots The AI Forum is supportive of the call for an international ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS).  Below are the details of public events with Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Arms Division and Global Coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, in … Continue reading "Humanitarian Disarmament: Banning Killer Robots, events with Mary Wareham"
16 April 2019