Regulations can help address the challenge of preventing potentially harmful uses of AI, but regulatory efforts take time to establish. In the meantime, what steps can individuals and institutions take to help ensure that their AI research and systems are responsible and ethical? AI2 introduces the ImpACT License Project, which adopts a risk-based rather than artifact-based approach that enables public reporting of violations and disclosure requirements around intended use and project inputs.
A Computational Inflection for Scientific Discovery
"We need systems that can understand the context of scientists and help retrieve & synthesize knowledge for specific tasks." AI2 research scientist Tom Hope contributed an article for the CACM magazine alongside Semantic Scholar's Director Doug Downey and Chief Scientist/GM Dan Weld, former AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni, and Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz about the need for a human-centric approach to AI.
AI2's Wildlands team went to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge to test an early version of their Fuels Data app, an application for mobile devices that helps wildland practitioners measure and track surface fuels in order to help manage fires. They're looking for more testers! Read the blog to contact the team and access the app link.