Abstract: There have been some high profile claims that recent developments in AI represent an existential threat to humanity. I will seek to debunk these concerns and then raise the immediate issues about AI that I believe are more important for urgent attention.
Biography: Geoff Webb is an Australian Laureate Fellow in the Monash University Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. An eminent and highly cited data scientist and AI researcher, he was editor in chief of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal from 2005 to 2014. He has been Program Committee Chair of both ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM, as well as General Chair of ICDM and member of the ACM SIGKDD Executive. He is a Technical Advisor to machine learning as a service startup BigML Inc and to recommender systems startup FROOMLE. He pioneered multiple research areas as diverse as black-box user modelling, interactive data analytics and statistically-sound pattern discovery. He has developed many useful machine learning algorithms that are widely deployed. His many awards include IEEE Fellow, the inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science (2017), the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Research Contributions Award (2024), the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 10-year Highest Impact Award (2023) and membership of the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia Academy (2024).
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