IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | Post Quantum Internet
The need for a post-quantum Internet is emerging, and this is a great opportunity to re-examine the legacy of public key infrastructure.
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IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | Self-Driving Cars: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Self-driving cars have been a dream from almost the time the automobile was invented. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), this dream has seemingly become reality with driverless commercial operations already taking place in a handful of cities around the world.
IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | Implications of Robotics for Public Policy
Innovations in robotics are now present in many aspects of human endeavour, from robotic vacuum cleaners to autonomous battlefield drone swarms.
IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | Designing a Standard to Minimise Misuse of Technology for Coercive-Control (P2987)
It is an uncomfortable truth for designers and operators of technology that it is increasingly being used by perpetrators of interpersonal coercive-control, for example in cases such as domestic abuse. This session will provide an update on the progress towards a recommended practice in the principles of design and operation of technology to minimise this kind of misuse.
IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | 20 Years of Analysing Multilingual Propaganda Content on the Web
From its early years as a global information infrastructure, the Internet, originally designed by and for the US Department of Defence, has been efficiently and effectively misused by various hate groups who often consider the US government their worst enemy.
IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | Automating Empathy in Human-AI Partnerships: Issues, Ethics and Governance
This lecture considers General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) products marketed as ‘empathic partners’, ‘personal AI’, ‘co-pilots’, ‘assistants’, and related phrasing for ‘human-AI partnering’.
IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Webinar | Ain’t Misbehavin’: A Gentle Introduction to the IEEE Standard for Fail-Safe Design of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Systems
The focus of the lecture will be on the means by which the standard, and in-work extensions to it, can address the range of emerging challenges in respect of safety arising from the unfolding 'Cambrian explosion' of AI powered autonomous systems.