20.08.2024
When: Thursday, August 22th, from 10:15 am to 11:45 am
Who: Prof Catholijn Jonker from TU Delft/Leiden University
Where: Zoom
Hybrid Intelligence is the intelligence emerging from a true collaboration between human and artificial intelligence. The future of humankind is determined more and more by the results of a co-evolution process of humans and their technology. Artificial intelligence is a force to be reckoned with as the autonomous intelligence it creates is still developed mostly from a business perspective to supplant people, thus reducing costs, and increasing efficiency of current work processes. In this talk I present the different view of hybrid intelligence in which humans and artificial intelligence work together to advance human intelligence as well as artificial intelligence. When talking about artificial intelligence with a high dose of autonomy and working alongside humans, the issue of Meaningful Human Control is a vital one for our immediate and long-term safety. I briefly show how we can achieve meaningful human control with respect to the notion of fairness by combining Knowledge Technology with RL and with human intelligence.
Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker is head of the Interactive Intelligence group at TU Delft and professor of Explainable Artificial Intelligence at Leiden University. She is a Fellow of EurAI, member of Academia Europaea, and member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. She is a co-founding member of the Netherlands Academy of Engineers. She is a knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Her publications address hybrid intelligence and interactive intelligent processes such as negotiation, teamwork and the dynamics of individual agents. In particular, she works towards intelligent agents that can interact with their users in value-conflicting situations when also meta-values no longer solve the situation and negotiation is needed.
Prestigious grants for her work are the NWO VICI (1.5 M€, 2007) personal grant negotiation support systems, and NWO Gravitation consortium grants (19 M€, 2019) on “Hybrid Intelligence” of which she is vice-coordinator, and “Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies” of which she is co-applicant. Co-applicant of the EC awarded projects HumanE-AI, TAILOR and VISION.