Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are bringing considerable benefits to individuals and organizations. Implementing AI applications in an open environment, however, requires the ability to deal with incompleteness and uncertainty, and to enable transfer learning, learning from rich simulation environments, or personalization from a small number of examples. However, as the scientific understanding of AI advances, it is also necessary to consider its potential drawbacks, unintended consequences and possible harms. Challenges include the legal and ethical issues associated with the use of autonomous systems, user distrust of automated reasoning, errors and biases in automated reasoning, the appearance of unintended effects and malicious use. This conference addresses the growing concerns about the influence of artificial intelligence on individuals and society, and will present some promising avenues for addressing them.
This conference is organized as part of a partnership between Collège de France and Inria, to mark the tenth anniversary of the joint Microsoft Research Center - Inria.
