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AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 4(4) 2018 AI Matters Annotated Table of Contents AI Ethics Education Welcome to AI Matters 4(4) AI Policy Matters Amy McGovern, co-editor & Iolanda Larry Medsker Leite, co-editor Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299765 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299759 Welcome and summary TAI Policy Matters Call for Proposals: Artificial Intelli- Epochs of an AI Cosmology gence Activities Fund Cameron Hughes & Tracey Hughes Sven Koenig, Sanmay Das, Rosemary Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299868 Paradis, Michael Rovatsos & Nicholas AI Cosmology Mattei Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299760 Artificial Intelligence and Jobs of the Artificial Intelligence Activities Fund Future: Adaptability Is Key for Hu- man Evolution AI Profiles: An Interview with Iolanda Sudarshan Sreeram Leite Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3300060 Marion Neumann AI and Jobs of the Future Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299761 Interview with Iolanda Leite Links Events SIGAI website: http://sigai.acm.org/ Michael Rovatsos Newsletter: http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/ Blog: http://sigai.acm.org/ai-matters/ Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299762 Twitter: http://twitter.com/acm sigai/ Upcoming AI events Edition DOI: 10.1145/3284751 Conference Reports Join SIGAI Michael Rovatsos Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299763 Students $11, others $25 For details, see http://sigai.acm.org/ Conference Reports Benefits: regular, student Also consider joining ACM. 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Heidi Furey & Fred Martin Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3299758.3299764 1 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 4(4) 2018 Notice to Contributing Authors to SIG Newsletters Contents Legend By submitting your article for distribution in this Book Announcement Special Interest Group publication, you hereby grant to ACM the following non-exclusive, per- Ph.D. Dissertation Briefing petual, worldwide rights: • to publish in print on condition of acceptance AI Education by the editor • to digitize and post your article in the elec- Event Report tronic version of this publication Hot Topics • to include the article in the ACM Digital Li- brary and in any Digital Library related ser- vices Humor • to allow users to make a personal copy of AI Impact the article for noncommercial, educational or research purposes AI News However, as a contributing author, you retain copyright to your article and ACM will refer Opinion requests for republication directly to you. Paper Precis´ Submit to AI Matters! Spotlight We’re accepting articles and announce- ments now for the next issue. Details on Video or Image the submission process are available at Details at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters. AI Matters Editorial Board Amy McGovern, Co-Editor, U. Oklahoma Iolanda Leite, Co-Editor, KTH Sanmay Das, Washington Univ. in Saint Louis Alexei Efros, Univ. of CA Berkeley Susan L. Epstein, The City Univ. of NY Yolanda Gil, ISI/Univ. of Southern California Doug Lange, U.S. Navy Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, Univ. of WI Madison Contact us: [email protected] 2 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 4(4) 2018 Welcome to AI Matters 4(4) Amy McGovern, co-editor (University of Oklahoma; [email protected]) Iolanda Leite, co-editor (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); [email protected]) DOI: 10.1145/3299758.3299759 Welcome to our new co-editor! and September 30, 2019. Nominations are welcome from any country, but only English Welcome to the fourth issue of the fourth vol- language versions will be accepted. Only one ume of the AI Matters Newsletter! Our biggest nomination may be submitted per Ph.D. grant- news is that we would like to extend a big wel- ing institution, including large universities. Dis- come to our new co-editor! Iolanda Leite is sertations will be reviewed for relevance to ar- an Assistant Professor at the School of Com- tificial intelligence, technical depth and signif- puter Science and Electrical Engineering at icance of the research contribution, potential the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Swe- impact on theory and practice, and quality of den. Iolanda is excited to join the AI Mat- presentation. The details of the nomination ters team and to help to continue to grow the process will be announced in early 2019. newsletter for ACM SIGAI. She is also our guest for the interview this month so please go to our interview and learn more about our new co-editor! ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest The ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Announcements Intelligence (ACM SIGAI) supports the devel- opment and responsible application of Artifi- Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral cial Intelligence (AI) technologies. We there- Dissertation Award fore invite essay submissions to the 2018 The Special Interest Group on Artificial In- ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest, to be pub- telligence of the Association for Computing lished in the ACM SIGAI newsletter AI Mat- Machinery (ACM SIGAI) and the Association ters, addressing one or both of the following for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence topic areas: (AAAI) are happy to announce that they have established the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doc- • What requirements, if any, should be im- toral Dissertation Award to recognize and en- posed on AI systems and technology when courage superior research and writing by doc- interacting with humans who may or may not toral candidates in artificial intelligence. This know that they are interacting with a ma- annual award is presented at the AAAI Con- chine? ference on Artificial Intelligence in the form of a certificate and is accompanied by the op- • What requirements, if any, should be im- tion to present the dissertation at the AAAI posed on AI systems and technology when conference as well as to submit one 6-page making decisions that directly affect hu- summary for both the AAAI proceedings and mans? the newsletter of ACM SIGAI. Up to two Hon- orable Mentions may also be awarded, also Win one of several $500 monetary prizes or with the option to present their dissertations a Skype conversation with a leading AI re- at the AAAI conference as well as submit one searcher, including Joanna Bryson, Murray 6-page summary for both the AAAI proceed- Campbell, Eric Horvitz, Peter Norvig, Iyad ings and the newsletter of ACM SIGAI. The Rahwan, Francesca Rossi, or Toby Walsh. award will be presented for the first time at the AAAI conference in 2020 for dissertations that The deadline for submissions is January have been successfully defended (but not nec- 10th, 2019. essarily finalized) between October 1, 2018 For details, please visit the blog announce- Copyright c 2018 by the author(s). ment. 3 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 4(4) 2018 *New Conflict of Interest and Submit to AI Matters! Retractions Policies Thanks for reading! Don’t forget to send The ACM Publications Board has approved your ideas and future submissions to AI new Conflict of Interest and Retractions poli- Matters! We’re accepting articles and an- cies. Both of these new policies are now nouncements now for the next issue. De- posted on ACM’s website at: tails on the submission process are avail- https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/conflict- able at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters. of-interest Issue overview This issue opens with an interview from Mar- ion Newmann of our new co-editor: Iolanda Leite. We also have a summary of recent AI conferences and events from Michael Rovat- sos. Our educational column this issue pro- vides a model AI assignment for teaching ethics in AI focused on autonomous vehicles. Amy McGovern is co- Larry Medsker’s policy column summarizes a editor of AI Matters. She variety of policy issues of interest to the SIGAI is a Professor of com- community including the creation of a new puter science at the Uni- Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence, FTC hear- versity of Oklahoma and ings on AI, and recent discussions on how to an adjunct Professor of design AI to be safe as well as issues sur- meteorology. She directs rounding legality of AI. He closes with a short the Interaction, Discovery, discussion of privacy for AI Matters. ACM’s Exploration and Adapta- agreement with EasyChair specifies that we tion (IDEA) lab. Her re- collect age and gender data and we welcome search focuses on ma- any discussion on our proposed response to chine learning and data mining with applica- this data collection. tions to high-impact weather. Finally, we close with two paper contributions. Iolanda Leite is co-editor The first is a continuation of the discussion of of AI Matters. She is an an AI “cosmology” by our contributing editors Assistant Professor at the Cameron Hughes and Tracey Hughes. They School of Computer Sci- propose the idea of epochs of AI in their cur- ence and Electrical Engi- rent article. The second paper discusses the neering at the KTH Royal future of AI and how it will affect jobs. Institute of Technology in Sweden. Her research in- terests are in the areas of Human-Robot Interaction and Artificial Intelli- gence. She aims to develop autonomous so- cially intelligent robots that can assist people over long periods of time. 4 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 4(4) 2018 Call for Proposals: Artificial Intelligence Activities Fund Sven Koenig (elected; ACM SIGAI Chair) Sanmay Das (elected; ACM SIGAI Vice-Chair) Rosemary Paradis (elected; ACM SIGAI Secretary/Treasurer) Michael Rovatsos (appointed; ACM SIGAI Conference Coordination Officer) Nicholas Mattei (appointed; ACM SIGAI AI and Society Officer) DOI: 10.1145/3299758.3299760 ACM SIGAI invites funding proposals for arti- mation on at most 3 pages: ficial intelligence (AI) activities with a strong outreach component to either students, re- • a description of the activity (including when searchers, or practitioners not working on AI and where it will be held); a budget for technologies or to the public in general.