News & Media Appearances

Major and MSc student Artififial Intelligence Ilse Verdiesen has won the first prize of the European International Society for Military Ethics (EuroISME) last week for her Master thesis on ‘Ethics of Autonomous Weapons’.

Pieter van Gelder is per 17 april jl. voor een termijn van 4 jaar benoemd tot lid van de raad van advies van de ANVS (Autoriteit Nucleaire Veiligheid en Stralingsbescherming).

Aimee van Wynsberghe, assistant professor of ethics and technology at TU Delft and co-founder and president of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, will be presenting a keynote address at ITWeb Artificial Intelligence 2018.

Europe’s secret weapon in the race against the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence is … ethics. The EU Commission wants to spell out how to preserve fundamental rights along with the rise of AI. One of the central goals in the EU strategy is to provide customers with insight into the systems. Virginia Dignum, an AI researcher at the Delft University of Technology, said “transparency of AI is more than just making the algorithm transparent,” adding that companies should also have to disclose details such as which data was used to train their algorithms, which data are used to make decisions, how this data was collected, or at which point in the process humans were involved in the decision-making process.

Professor of Biological Physics, Nynke Dekker, and Professor of Ethics and Technology, Ibo van de Poel, both received an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council this month. In the article Van de Poel talks about the research he will be carrying out on changing values.