Special Session on Artificial Intelligent Systems in Emergency Contexts: The Covid-19 Case
Chair: Raja Chatila
Sorbonne University
Chair of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.
Member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI with the European Commission
Date: 28th September 2020 | 10:00- 11:30 CET
Outline and Scope
The outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic, first in China and South Korea, with its fast spreading to Europe and to the rest of the world, has urged governments to provide quick solutions to control the epidemics and to minimize and overcome its impacts on public health, economy and society. Some of the most effective solutions involve the increased adoption of advanced digital technologies, data analytics and AI techniques in multiple aspects of the COVID-19 crisis response, namely:
- Scenario analysis for evaluating disease progression, economic downturn and recovery.
- Decision-making on site openings, contingency planning, demand sensing, supply chain disruptions and workforce planning.
- Understanding the virus and accelerating medical research on drugs and treatments
- Detecting and diagnosing the virus, and predicting its evolution
- Assisting in preventing or slowing the virus’ spread through surveillance and contact tracing.
- Monitoring the recovery and improving early warning tools.
This Special Session will
- address the role played by AI and robotic systems, during the pandemics,
- discuss the sensible issues relative to collecting, analyzing and sharing of personal data that are user-derived from mobile device records such as geolocalization or collected from mobile applications; as well as that relative to biometrics,
- attempt to envisage the way to go in the roles assigned to AI systems in what concerns the definition of trustworthy Public Health policies capable of predicting, preventing, controlling and curing infecto-contageous diseases while respecting fundamental human rights.
Panel:
Arlindo de Oliveira – Instituto Superior Técnico. University of Lisbon
Amit Kumar Pandey – Hanson Robotics
Bruno Siciliano – University of Naples Federico II
Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira – University of Lisbon
Mário Jorge Santos MD – Former President of the Portuguese Association of Public Health
Miguel Castro Neto – NOVA Information Management School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Naho Kitano – Co-founder HiBot Corp and Executive Officer, GovTech Venture, Asukoe Partners Inc.
Roland de Bruin – University of Utrecht & Attorney-at-law at KienhuisHoving N.V.
Seungbin Moon – Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
Session Organiser
Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira
Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon and Institute for Systems and Robotics/IST
University of Lisbon. Lisbon. Portugal