23 March 2021
Congratulations Team New Zealand on winning the America’s Cup! A fantastic win for New Zealand and equally a win for AI! Augmenting AI with human brilliance is exactly the balance we should be striving for and it is perfectly demonstrated by the team’s experience and competitive edge gained during the training and development. An innovative … Continue reading "Operationalizing Values In AI – The Case of Fairness"
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22 March 2021
As New Zealand is a small, forward-looking tech-savvy country, it feels natural for its government to look for initiatives in the area of AI regulation
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25 February 2021
It’s wonderful news that the National AI Strategy has been approved to move into the next phase of development. This is an important milestone for all of us in the AI community. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the AI Forum will be conducting industry engagement during the round table sessions at the Aotearoa … Continue reading "Operationalizing Values In AI – The Case of Fairness"
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25 February 2021
NZ’s pioneering AI experts speaking at crucial summit in Auckland, 17 March. AI is projected to underpin $US15.7 trillion of global economic growth by 2030. Join us as we explore how we best apply these opportunities to Aotearoa. Register today spaces are limited. https://aotearoaai.nz/
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Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center have singled out 32 sets of principles for the responsible use of AI, which they have mapped to eight common themes. The work of applying such principles to the day-to-day world of engineers, practitioners, and, perhaps most importantly, oft
April 19, 2021
Congratulations Team New Zealand on winning the America’s Cup! A fantastic win for New Zealand and equally a win for AI! Augmenting AI with human brilliance is exactly the balance we should be striving for and it is perfectly demonstrated by the team’s experience and competitive edge gained dur
March 23, 2021
Alistair KnottDept of Computer Science, University of Otago New Zealanders like to think of their country as an innovator in public policy. New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote in 1893, the first Western country to go nuclear-free in 1987, and among the first countries to foc
March 22, 2021
How should government and society come together to address the challenge of regulating artificial intelligence? What approaches and tools will promote innovation, protect society from harm and build public trust in AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key driver of the Fourth Industrial Rev
March 19, 2021
It's wonderful news that the National AI Strategy has been approved to move into the next phase of development. This is an important milestone for all of us in the AI community. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the AI Forum will be conducting industry engagement during
February 25, 2021
Many of New Zealand’s pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) experts will provide the latest news and outline new trends at the Aotearoa AI summit in Auckland on March 17. One of the key speakers is a founder of AI company Soul Machines, Greg Cross, who lives in New Zealand but creates busine
February 25, 2021
Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed farewelling an extremely difficult year and had a brilliant break.We’re really excited about our upcoming annual conference, Aotearoa AI Summit – good for Aotearoa, good for the world. You may consider ‘good for Aotearoa, good for the world’ a b
January 26, 2021
Thank you to those of you who joined our annual meeting last week. We had the pleasure of announcing the election results and welcomed Mahsa, Habib and Caleb for the first time. We are fortunate to welcome back Rachel, Louise, Michael, Ross, Carole, Frith, Graeme and Sandra. At ou
December 1, 2020
Following our Annual Meeting we would like to extend a warm welcome to our newly elected Executive Council members. Congratulations to Habib Bulawala of Spark, Caleb Moses of Dragonfly Data Science and Mahsa Mohaghegh of Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Congratulati
November 26, 2020